Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities
| Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities | |
| Kent | |
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 The Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ92047478 |
| Location: | 51°26’22"N, 0°45’43"E |
| Town: | Sheerness |
| History | |
| Cottage | |
| Information | |
The Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities is a local museum, housed in a cottage on Rose Street in Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Rose Street Cottage and its two neighbouring properties are the only remaining homes of a number that were built for Sheerness Dockyard workers in the 18th and 19th centuries – often using timber “Chips” from the docks. They are weather-boarded, roofed with Welsh slate and are Grade II listed.
This cottage was the home of the Kicks family of shipwrights. Since then, it has been a furniture shop and a chip shop.
In 1989 the cottage became a museum, with the prosaic name 'Sheerness Heritage Centre'. In 2015 the Sheppey Promenade, a charity, took over, and renamed it 'Rose Street Cottage of Curiosities'.
The cottage is now a tiny museum, with 'objects brought by locals over many years to evoke the Island's quirky stories'.
