The Chesters Hotel, Rosewell

The Chesters Hotel in Rosewell is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay public house that has undergone later additions and alterations. The exterior is harled with polished dressings and features a dividing band course and projecting cills.

The northwest elevation is near-symmetrical, with an architraved doorway at the center of the ground floor, which has a two-leaf flat timber door. To the right, there is a window with raised margins, and to the left, a 20th century architraved bowed window is advanced in the flanking bay, with a two-leaf timber door next to it. The first floor has regular fenestration. There is a single-storey, two-bay, 20th century addition on the outer right, featuring a recessed bowed window in each bay.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical, with a 20th century addition advanced to the left of the ground floor, which includes a timber doorway on the right return. There is an off-centre window to the right on the first floor, and recessed bays to the right with later additions on the ground floor and outer right.

The southeast elevation is predominantly obscured by later additions. The northeast elevation is also asymmetrical, with an off-centre window to the left on both the ground and first floors. There is a two-storey, four-bay, 19th century addition to the left, a boarded-up window opening at the center of the ground floor, and regular fenestration on the first floor.

The building features predominantly 12-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof with a lead ridge, stone skews, harled coped gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.