A small frame white-stucco’d cottage with eyebrow windows built at the back entrance to the Penryn King Estate for Mary Rose who immigrated from Ireland to join the estate’s staff. She lived there for several decades. Since then, prominently sited where the estate’s laneway is now the entrance to the Port Hope Golf and Country Club, it has often been unoccupied. Although it stood on a designated property, the cottage had not been included in the listing; accordingly, a demolition permit was granted to Mason Homes, who intended to develop this section of the estate into phase three of a new sub-division. Then a new owner, Stephen Henderson, of Henderson Construction, who specializes in heritage conservation and restoration, committed to move the house to an alternative site, 65 Pine Street North.

ACO Port Hope supported local hero Stephen Henderson, the new owner of Rose’s Cottage, by defraying costs of a move that was video’d by Global News.

See also:

Rose’s Cottage in Port Hope won’t be demolished, Sarah Hyatt, Northumberland News, June 19, 2019

How historic Rose Cottage in Port Hope got moved ahead by a century, Tracy Haynes, Toronto Star, Feb 3, 2021

In 2020, Stephen Henderson received the ACO NextGen Award for his swift action to save and move Rose's Cottage.