The Old Shop And Rose Cottage

The Old Shop and Rose Cottage are two attached houses, dating to the 17th century, with later alterations in the late 20th century. They are constructed of roughly squared stone with a stone slate roof. The houses are arranged in a line, one room deep, with a single-storey extension at the right end. The Old Shop is on the left and Rose Cottage on the right.

The facade facing the road has stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to the ground floor, except for the extension. A late 20th-century boarded door is on the left, with a chamfered and ovolo-moulded arris, a Tudor arch, a stone lintel, and a hoodmould. To the right of this are four, two, and three-light windows, followed by a boarded door leading up three stone steps, a flat concrete lintel, and a hoodmould. A further two-light window has a deep stone lintel. The extension has a slight set-back with two- and single-light windows and reconstructed stone surrounds, topped by a parapet gable.

Above the ground floor are two stone gables, each with a two-light mullioned window with hoodmould and a parapet gable with a cross-gablet apex. A late 20th-century chimney rises from the eaves on the right side. There are two small gabled dormers on the right, each with a two-light wooden casement, and a ridge chimney between them with a moulded cap. The level of the ridge drops slightly at the chimney. A further parapet gable is on the right with a cross-gablet apex.

A chimney on the ridge has paired flues and a plain cap. According to local tradition, the first sewing machine was made in Rose Cottage by C. Keyte in 1842.