Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a small house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with some 19th-century alterations. The house is of mixed construction, with stone rubble side walls and a smooth rendered timber-frame front. It has a rendered stone chimneystack topped with clay pots, a slate roof, and timber windows and door. It follows a single-bay, double-depth plan.

The three-storey house has a single-window range. The central windows on each floor are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, set in a canted bay on the first and second floors. To the right of the front door is a 19th-century six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, set under a flat-roofed hood supported by shaped timber brackets. The door furniture includes a small letterbox, a door knocker, and doorknob. A local stone doorstep sits to the front, and a cast iron boot scraper is inset in the wall to the left. The roof is slate with a rendered stack at the left end above plain eaves.

The interior was not inspected in 2009.

Rose Cottage stands opposite the medieval St Saviour’s Church in the New Quay area of Dartmouth. Historic records suggest nearby houses were occupied by merchant families whose commemoration can be found in the church, and the architectural style appears parallel to the 17th-century carpentry and joinery within. The neighbouring house, Pilot Cottage or No. 7 Church Close, has 17th-century panelling in the hallway, though it is unknown if similar features remain at Rose Cottage.

The house was modernised in the early to mid-19th century with the addition of oriel windows, a new front door with hood, and a cast iron boot scraper. The building’s present configuration is largely shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map, although the rear of the property underwent reworking in subsequent years.

Rose Cottage is designated at Grade II for its character as a 17th-century house with 19th-century modifications.