Listed Building: ROSE COTTAGE FARMHOUSE (433509)

OFFTON BILDESTON ROAD TM 04 NE 6/138 Rose Cottage Farmhouse - II Farmhouse; a late C16 2-storey parlour block to left, and a lower hall range to right of C17 with C18 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered; much of the close-scudded framing is exposed externally. Plaintiled roofs; axial C17/C18 chimney of red brick. Flat-roofed early C20 casement dormers. Mainly C20 small-pane casements. Boarded and battened entrance door with lean-to open porch on posts. The parlour has good quality C16 framing, including an ovolo- moulded bridging joist and roll-moulded common joists. Back-to-back open fireplaces in hall and parlour. Framing in hall range is poorer and later, with some C18 work including the roof (which reuses mediaeval rafters). Listing NGR: TM0536049520