Adjacent to the Primary School is the Rose Hill Community Centre, formally opened in 2016 costing £5 million.

[2] A focal point of the road of Rose Hill is a small landscaped triangle adjacent to a row of shops built in the 1940s that have a part-timbered Tudor style facade.

The oldest homes on the residential estate were built between 1936 and 1939 to house people from the dilapidated slum dwelling around Jericho and St. Ebbes.

Newman wrote to a friend in 1831 about his delightful room at Rose Hill from which he "could see Iffley church" and thought that the view "is too good for me".

His daughter Lady Antonia Fraser, novelist and biographer, who grew up in their house on the road of Rose Hill, wrote that the views over Oxford would have pleased Matthew Arnold with their distant spires, towers, college roofs'.

The Changing Faces of Rose Hill, Ann Spokes Symonds, Robert Boyd Publications The Pebbled Shore.