Rose Cottage

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SX 39 SE ST GILES ON THE HEATH GRIDLEY CORNER

5/41 Rose Cottage -

GV II

Cottage. Core probably C18, C20 addition and thorough renovations in progress at time of survey (1985). Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings with a thatched roof gabled at the left end, left end stack, rear wing C20 in concrete block with thatched roof.

One of a pair of cottages said formerly to have been 3 properties, the original plan may have been a single-cell cottage to the left, the right-hand end may have been one half of a 2-cell cottage. The present plan is single depth with a rear wing, prior to the 1985 renovations the main range consisted of a living room/kitchen at the left end and a smaller unheated room to the right, the internal partition between the rooms has been removed.

2 storeys. Approximately symmetrical 2-window front with a C20 thatched porch in the centre. Ground floor window left is a C20 casement; right, a 6-light fixed window, probably C19. 1 first floor window above the porch is a 3-light casement, 6 panes per light, probably C19.

Interior The ground floor has large rough cross beams and an open fireplace with stone rubble jambs, an unmoulded lintel and a cloam oven with a clay lid. The stairs were formerly in a rear outshut which no longer exists and C20 stairs have been inserted in the main range. A blocked doorway on the right-hand wall formerly led into the adjacent property.

The cottage is on a prominent corner site in the village and has group value with the adjacent cottage and Nos 1 and 2 Gridley Corner (qv).

Listing NGR: SX3607990092

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0990 IOE Records taken by Barbara Hilton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Dr Barbara Hilton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project