Rose Cottage, 109 Nursery Road, Ringsend, Gracehill, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, BT42 2QD

Rose Cottage is a single-storey vernacular house built between 1820 and 1839, situated on a raised roadside site about three miles south of Gracehill, at the junction of the road from Randalstown to Gracehill and the road proceeding south-easterly towards Moneyglass and Toomebridge. The building faces east.

The house is plastered and whitened with a thatch roof finished between cement skews at the gables. Both gables rise to corbelled chimneys. A further chimneystack is positioned right of centre above the original main hearth. The south gable and the stack above the original main hearth each carry a single pot and spark arrester, while the north gable stack has no pot. The entrance comprises a sheeted half door flanked to the right by two double casement windows and to the left by a similar window. All window openings have narrow sills. The south gable of the main house is blank. On the west side, a sheeted rear door with a glazed panel is flanked by two casement windows to the right and one to the left.

The original layout and early structure have been largely retained, though sawn timbers have been extensively introduced into the right-hand section of the roof. A modern extension was added to the right (north) gable in 1993, constructed with natural materials and roofed with natural slate with metal rainwater goods. A pair of casement windows on the north gable of the extension matches those at the front of the house. Integration of access from the main house into the extension by forming a corridor was achieved with minimum interference to the original layout.

Cartographic records show a smaller building on this site in the Ordnance Survey map of 1832/33, with the revised map of 1857 showing a house apparently similar in size to the present building. The 1859 valuation records William McDowell as occupant, with Reverend W.C. O'Neill as immediate lessor, with a rateable value of £1-10-0.