Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, with possible earlier elements. It was renovated around 1970. The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and features a stone rubble stack topped with a granite ashlar chimney shaft. The roof is thatched, although the section over the byre has been replaced with corrugated iron.

The layout consists of a three-room plan facing southeast, built across a hillslope. The two-room section on the right serves as the main house, with the right end room containing a gable-end stack. The central room is unheated and has been partitioned in the 20th century, with a cross passage and a rear corridor that includes the modern stairs. The left end room, originally a byre or stable, is now used as a workshop with additional service rooms added in the 20th century. The building has two storeys and a secondary outshot in front of the byre/stables.

The exterior features a regular two-window front with 20th-century casements, one of which is leaded. The first-floor half dormers are made of PVC and have thatch gables above. The main entrance is to the left, featuring a 20th-century door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch supported by rustic posts. There is also a 20th-century glazed door to the right and a woodshed outshot in front of the byre/stable. The roof is gable-ended.

Inside, both rooms of the house have roughly-chamfered axial beams. The fireplace in the right room is blocked by a 20th-century grate, but some of the original oak lintel is still visible. The oldest feature is the side-pegged jointed cruck roof truss above the heated room, which is likely from the 16th century, although the roofspace is inaccessible for dating. The left room displays the bases of straight principals, probably a late 17th-century A-frame truss with a pegged lap-jointed collar, similar to that found in the stable/byre.