Cherry Trees Rosalee Rosalee Cottage

A range of three estate cottages, likely converted from a larger house. The cottages probably date from the 17th century, with conversions taking place around the mid-19th century. They are constructed of local stone rubble with red brick window arches. The roofs are covered in asbestos slate, with a gabled main range and a hipped roof over a rear wing. Rendered gable end stacks are present, along with a projecting rear lateral stack with a rendered shaft.

The original plan is thought to have been four rooms within the single-depth main range, with a stairhall in the centre. The left-hand two-room cottage (Cherry Trees) has a gable end stack serving the left-end room, and a rear lateral stack (now axial) serving both the right-hand room and Rosalee Cottage in the wing behind. Rosalee Cottage occupies the two right-hand rooms of the main range; its left-hand room has a rear lateral stack, possibly incorporating an integral staircase, and the right-hand room is heated from a gable end stack. The interior was not inspected but may retain some 19th-century joinery. The lateral stack at the back of Rosalee may conceal a large fireplace and an adjacent newel staircase.

The exterior presents a long, asymmetrical 7-window facade. The windows are mostly 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars, some with side lights containing sashes—an unusual architectural detail. Later 20th-century plastic casements have replaced some windows in Cherry Trees, and one first-floor window sill has been lowered. All windows are set within their original 19th-century openings, featuring red brick cambered arches and slate dripstones above some ground-floor windows. There are two doorways, one to the left of centre (Cherry Trees) and one at the right-hand end of the front (Rosalee), both with 19th-century and later 20th-century panelled doors and later open porches with wooden shingle roofs. Some of the original roof structure may survive.

These cottages were part of the estate village of Sharpham House and were created from what was likely originally a farmhouse.