Rockhurst

Rockhurst, located at No. 7 South Crescent on the Headland in Hartlepool, is a pair of terraced houses built in the early to mid-19th century. The houses are constructed from stuccoed and rendered brick, topped with a Welsh slate roof.

No. 7 features three storeys and has two bays. It includes a four-panelled door on the left, which is set beneath an overlight and framed by a quasi Ionic pilaster-and-entablature doorcase with panelled reveals. To the right, there is a two-storey canted bay window that has entablatures and slender flanking pilasters. A sill band runs along the second floor. All windows in No. 7 have mid to late 20th-century top-hung casements fitted into the original openings.

Adjoining to the left is No. 33, which has a two-storey mid-20th-century bay window and two second-floor openings with mid-20th-century casements and a sill band. The building features chamfered quoins at the angle. The left return of No. 33 has two bays on the left-hand side, with a round-headed doorway on the right, also framed by a quasi Tuscan pilaster-and-entablature doorcase. The windows here have mid-20th-century top-hung casements, painted sills, and a second-floor sill band. The roofs of both houses are hipped to the left and include two axial ridge stacks and end stacks.

Later extensions at the rear are not considered of interest. The buildings are included for their group value.