Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a cottage, originally two cottages and an agricultural store, dating back to the 17th century. It was extended and modernised around 1970. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The original layout comprised a two-room cottage with a projecting end stack on its right (east) side, and a one-room cottage to the left (west). A room was added to the left end in the 19th century, and an 18th or 19th-century store, offset and projecting from the main house, was incorporated into domestic use around 1970. Extensions were added to the rear around 1970. The front of the cottage now presents a nearly symmetrical appearance with a four-window arrangement featuring 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. Ground floor windows obscure original doorways, and the window to the left of centre has a visible 17th-century chamfered oak lintel with run-out stops. A 20th-century door is located at the left end, sheltered by a thatch monopitch roofed porch. Three decorative stone balls (beeboles) are positioned at first floor level, one between each window. The roof is gable-ended. The converted store at the left end is also gable-ended, featuring a large window with glazing bars. The interior was extensively renovated around 1970, and many timbers were replaced. However, the original layout remains discernible, including a cob crosswall separating the former cottages. The right-hand cottage is now a single room, and a 17th-century cross beam survives at the right (east) end: this is chamfered with run-out stops. A 17th-century rubble fireplace also survives, featuring a chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel and a later bread oven. The 17th-century roof structure has substantial 20th-century bracing and includes A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. The converted store was originally two storeys, but is now single-storey.