Course Cottages Including Wall To The East

SS 72 SE ROSE ASH

6/130 Course Cottages including wall to - the east

GV II

Row of 3 cottages, formerly 4, possibly converted from a range of farm buildings in the C19. Colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble; red tiled roofs (formerly thatched), slated at the right end, 2 axial stacks. Plan: A row of single depth cottages, some with rear outshuts, the centre 2 converted into one, the right hand cottage extended into a former stable. It is said locally that the cottages originated as a farmbuilding range to a farmhouse which was sited to the north and demolished in the early C20. An early C20 photograph in the possession of the owners of No. 1. shows the farmhouse and the cottages which were thatched at the time, with a projection for the village shop in the centre. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3:3 window front. The left hand cottage, no. 1, has a door to the left into a narrow service room and 1 first floor and 1 ground floor 3-light late C19 small pane casements. No. 2 (formerly 2 cottages) has a 3 window front with C20 replacement on the ground floor. No 3 has a front door to left of centre and a second door to the left into the former stable; 3-light small-pane casements. Interior: No. 1, not fully inspected, appears to have a plain interior. No 2 has been modernised with the crosswall that formerly divided the 2 cottages removed, an open fireplace with a bread oven survives at the right end. No. 3 was not inspected at time of survey but is said to be very unaltered internally. 2 of the cottages were used at one time to house the employees, coachman and gardener, of the owner of Rose Ash Court (now Rose Ash House (q.v.) Tull).

Tull, Christopher S., Rose Ash Church and People (1979).

Listing NGR: SS7878721724