Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage is a row of five 1½-storey cottages at 2-10 Wexham Street, each with painted pebble dashed walls, a steep slate roof, and roughcast chimney stacks that have been reduced in height. All five houses follow a uniform design with a central doorway, flanking windows, and a gabled dormer positioned above the doorway. Photographs from around 1912 and 1937 show that Nos 4 and 6 formerly had raked dormers, which have since been altered to the current gabled form.

No 2 features a replacement half-glazed door beneath a gabled canopy, and renewed 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows. No 4 has smooth-rendered surrounds and an early 20th-century style half-glazed panel door with leaded lights set beneath a slate canopy on brackets. Its lower storey windows are 4-pane horned sashes, with a similar 6-pane window in the dormer. No 6 has a fielded-panel door under a gabled canopy and renewed 4-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows. No 8 is larger than its neighbours Nos 2-6. It displays a modern panel door with glazed panel in a rendered surround and canopy on simple brackets, renewed 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes, and a 2-light small-pane casement in the dormer. No 10, the largest house in the row, is distinguished by a half-glazed door with fielded panels and Gothic intersecting glazing bars set in a freestone surround with moulded cornice. Its windows are 2-light casements. A rubble-stone garden wall with a boarded door is attached to the left end of No 10.

The left gable end of No 10 contains a small stair light positioned to the right of centre. At the rear, No 10 has a replacement window to the right below a skylight, and a long 1-storey rear pebble-dashed wing with slate roof and 20th-century detailing. No 4 has been raised at the rear and includes a gabled 2-storey wing with a monopitched projection. The rear of No 2 has also been raised and has an added 1-storey projection.

Internally, the building was probably originally a 2-unit house with opposing front and back doors. The fireplace to the right has a stop-chamfered timber lintel. A single roughly finished cross beam has survived, and some original joists retain stopped chamfers.