Building record 1689/0/2 - Rock House

Rock House, High Street, with retaining wall and steps. Late C17 with early C19 front, of brown Flemish bond brick with grey slate roof. Cellar, 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. The lower storey is 2m above street level and has an almost full-length slate-roofed canopy, hipped to right and butting against adjacent buildings to left, on 3 shaped wooden brackets. Door of 2 fielded panels above flush reeded panels has rectangular overlight; canted bay window to right and square bay window to left. The upper storey has 3 flush sashes under camber arches and with projecting stone cills. Interior: Cellar, chamfered oak beam and altered inglenook with bevelled oak bressumer in left front room. Rear room has 2 chamfered oak beams, one ogee- stopped. Good oak stair of late C17/early C18 type has massive square newels, shaped rail of oak swept at 1st floor and 2 stout turned balusters per step, all painted. Oak purlins. Full architectural description (1).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /2/67 (Report). SCH1934.