9 Manse Street, Aberdour

Rose Cottage is a late 18th century row of three adjoining houses located on Manse Street in Aberdour. The central house is a two-storey, two-bay square-plan structure, flanked by two-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan houses. The buildings feature harled walls with painted stone margins around the openings, while the southeast and southwest elevations display exposed random rubble.

The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, is asymmetrical for No 9, with a door on the right and a window on the left, and a first-floor window centered above the ground floor window. The elevations for Nos 7 and 11 are symmetrical, each with a central door and flanking windows, and first-floor windows positioned close to the eaves above the ground floor openings. There is a spurstone to the far left of No 7.

The northeast elevation shows a plain gable wall for No 7. The southeast elevation is partially visible and features varied fenestration, along with a single-storey outshot for No 7. The southwest elevation has a plain gable wall with long and short quoins.

The houses have timber boarded doors, except for No 7, which has a two-leaf timber panelled door, all equipped with four-paned letterbox fanlights. The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case types. The roofs are pitched and covered with red clay pantiles, and the outer northeast and southwest elevations have raised, coped ashlar skews. There are shared, coped gable apex stacks flanking the central house, along with additional coped gable apex stacks on the outer northeast and southwest elevations, all topped with circular clay cans.