Rosemary Cottage TA923

Rosemary Cottage is the southern cottage of a row of four recorded with the same identification number in the village in 1840. The row probably extended to include what is now The Old Granary. Only two thirds of the original house was available for survey as part is in separate occupation. The front elevation is tile hung above brick with a tiled roof. There are two dormers to the roof and four by four casement windows to the first floor. Considerable changes have been made to the rear where there was originally a single storey outshot along the whole elevation.

The plan and visible details suggest this may have been a three bay framed village house of the end of the sixteenth century with an external end stack and a rear outshot. It is very likely that the stair was always within the outshot.

From a viewing of the adjoining properties along this stretch of the street, Rosemary Cottage appears to be the earliest survival. It was followed shortly by a fine double-fronted 'Georgian' build, part of which is still visible at the Old Granary, the building between these is a later infill or replacement. The Victorian corner building was augmented eventually by the wing which obscures half of the Granary frontage.

These notes have been compiled from survey reports prepared by Dr Annabelle Hughes.
The full reports have been deposited in the Sussex Archaeological Society Library, Barbican House, Lewes, where they can be consulted by researchers.

W.F.Dean's butcher's shop, 1910 - now The Old Surgery. Mr Dean also owned the butcher's shop at the other end of the village opposite The Royal Oak.
ESRO WI/112/1/1 Barcombe WI Coronation Scrapbook

Tithe Data

Cottages 4 (Rosemary Cottage, Rose Cottage, The Old Surgery, ? part The Old Granary on plot)

1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

Buildings

Archaeology

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