Rose Grove

Rose Grove is a cottage dating from around the late 17th century. It is constructed from rendered stone rubble with a thatched roof featuring gabled ends. Rendered stacks are present at each gable, with slate weathering and the left-hand stack being heightened in brick. The original plan comprised two rooms, with a central entrance into a lobby. The left-hand room served as the kitchen, containing a newel staircase to the side of the stack, while the right-hand room, situated at the road end, originally functioned as a parlour. The house is positioned at a right angle to the road, and it features a small 20th-century single-story extension at the left-hand end.

The front of the cottage is symmetrical with two windows. It has circa early 19th-century 3-light casement windows, with glazing bars. The ground-floor windows are slightly larger, and the left-hand first-floor window has a chamfered timber lintel with a step stop. The central doorway is equipped with a 19th-century flush panel above, incorporating glazed upper panels. A single-story outbuilding built against the rear wall was originally another cottage but is now used as a garage.

The interior features roughly chamfered cross-beams and chamfered joists. The right-hand room has a large, chamfered timber fireplace lintel with a pronounced near-elliptical camber and run-out stops. A similar lintel and a stone-lined oven are found in the fireplace of the left-hand room. A window staircase is located in the left-hand room’s rear wall, to the right of the stack. There is a small niche in the rear wall of the left-hand room, its original purpose unknown, potentially serving as a screen. Original plank doors and a stud partition separate the two ground-floor rooms. The roof was reportedly entirely replaced in a recent survey conducted in 1987.