Rose Cottage And The Cottage

Rose Cottage and The Cottage are two dwellings that were originally a single farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century with later additions and alterations. The building features pebbledashed cob on stone footings and has a gable end roof covered with asbestos slate. It was originally designed as a three-room through-passage house, with the service end on the left of the passage heated by an end stack. The hall was originally open to the roof and shows signs of being smoke-blackened. An axial stack backing onto the passage heats the hall, while an internal end stack heats the inner room. All stacks have brick shafts.

A passage has been added between the hall and the inner room (now Rose Cottage), and there is a newel stair turret at the rear, which is presumably original, along with later stairs inserted into the through-passage. The building is two storeys high.

The front exterior features a three-window range, with all 19th-century three-light casements on the first floor, plus a late 20th-century single light window at the extreme left. On the ground floor, the inner room (to the right) has a three-light window with a deeply chamfered surround and flat mullions, and there is a window between two half-glazed doors, also with three lights, leading to the service end (The Cottage). The right-hand end has a small window beside the fireplace and a two-light 19th-century casement window above. The rear corner is rounded to allow for vehicular access, and the rear includes the stair turret with a two-light 19th-century casement window, a lean-to, and a late 20th-century two-storey flat-roofed extension.

Inside, the inner room features a chamfered cross ceiling beam with stops, and an end fireplace with a chamfered lintel and run-out stops. The hall has a chamfered ceiling cross beam with scroll stops, but its fireplace is blocked. There is a rough axial beam in the service end. In the roof space, there are three jointed cruck trusses over the higher end, all with morticed and pegged apex carpentry and a diagonal ridge piece (Alcock type F2). The truss between the hall and inner room is closed and smoke-blackened only on the hall side. The inner room end cruck truss has a dovetailed collar, while the others have cranked collars, also morticed and pegged.