Rose Cottage And Garden Wall

SO 8400-8500 MINCHINHAMPTON AMBERLEY

18/161 Rose Cottage and garden wall

28.6.60

II

Detached house. Mid-late C18; early C19 addition. Coursed and random rubble limestone; ashlar and red brick chimneys; stone slate roof, concrete tile to rear. Three-storey with 3-storey parallel rear range. West front: 2-window fenestration, 6-light timber mullioned casements with central horizontal glazing bar and pointed-headed lights to ground and middle floors, similar 4-light windows to upper floor, all with timber lintels. Formerly doorways grouped at centre, one blocked, other with C20 door and timber lintel. Further doorway to left with flat-roofed timber latticework porch. Three ridge-mounted chimneys with plain caps. North end: pointed arched lights to casement windows on front range; single-window segmental arched casement fenestration to end of rear range. Rear: leaded timber casements to unobscured part of front range, otherwise all segmental arched casements. Single- storey addition at south end is not of special interest. Interior not inspected. Low coped garden wall has central pairs of gate piers and similar terminal piers, all with weathered copings. Hoop-topped iron railings and matching gate. This building is Rose Cottage in D. Craik's novel John Halifax, Gentleman, 1857, Amberley being disguised as Enderley. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8504100966