Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It is constructed with a roughly coursed limestone roof and a gabled pantile roof, featuring a stone end stack. The house follows a two-unit gable-entry plan, with one storey and an attic, displaying a two-window range. Timber lintels are positioned above the windows, which include a 2/2-pane sash window and a 2-light casement. The gable end on the left side of the house features a similar sash window above a 19th-century lean-to porch. The porch has a round-arched doorway and an inner plank door. The rear elevation retains an original gabled dormer. Inside, the hall/kitchen on the left side contains stop-chamfered beam and roll-moulded bressummer over an open fireplace, which includes a round arch to a bread oven. An original panelled partition, with chamfered muntins and rails, separates this room from a smaller service room. The first floor also has a similar partition, containing a 4-centred arched doorway, and a fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressummer. The roof is a 2-bay collar-truss design, with a threaded ridge purlin, butt side purlins and windbraces to the end bay. The interior is a remarkably well-preserved example of small-scale vernacular architecture.