Rosehill

Rosehill is a house, formerly a Marist Convent, built around 1835. It is constructed with stucco facing and has scantle slate roofs. The house is arranged around a central courtyard, with two-storey bows rising to full height and topped with conical roofs and deep eaves at each corner. A projecting bow forms the center of the north side, and a gable-end extension is visible to the left.

The house has two storeys and a basement to the north range. The west-facing central range has a three-bay facade with 19th-century two-light casement windows, each with six panes per light and margin glazing bars. The two-storey bows feature sash windows, with six panes per light and original glass on both floors. A slated verandah roof extends across the center, supported by timber posts, with square section posts at the ends and circular section posts with arched spandrels at each end. The verandah encloses a two-light casement window with six panes per light and margin glazing bars, alongside a half-glazed panelled door with margin glazing bars, both set in wider reveals with slightly cambered arches and fluted keystones. The bows have plat-bands running out to quoins, and wrought iron railings with spear shafts extend to the ground floor sill height.

The symmetrical north side features rounded ends (with the right-hand end being a bow to the front), and a central bow. It has four-over-four pane sash windows on each floor to the central bow, and single six-over-six pane sashes to the left and right side bows; other openings have been blocked. Three similar sashes are present on the south side above two French windows with margin glazing bars.

A stone rubble boundary wall with a brick capping extends south from the front right side, featuring a pointed arched Gothick doorway with a quatrefoil window to the left. The internal joinery and fittings remain largely intact, including marble chimneypieces, panelled doors and shutters, a geometrical staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, moulded plasterwork ceiling roundels, and enriched floriated plasterwork cornices to the principal rooms. Rosehill is a remarkably complete example of Regency style architecture, evidently inspired by Nash's Cronkhill.