The Rocklands

NESTON

SJ2976 WOODFALL LANE, Little Neston Village 794-1/7/51 (North side) 22/03/74 The Rocklands (Formerly Listed as: WOODFALL LANE (North side) The Rocklands and former farm building to the Rocklands)

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Farmhouse and farm building, farm building converted and incorporated into house, now single private dwelling. Farm building C17, house mid C18 with C19 alterations; house extended and converted to incorporate farm building in late C20. MATERIALS: house of brown brick in English garden wall bond on painted stone plinth; slate roof with brick end stacks. Former farm building of coursed rubble stone. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-bay front to house, with single-storey gabled porch extension in centre: single-storey 2-window extension to right linking to former farm building at rear. Porch door is glazed with radial glazed fanlight. Windows are recessed unequal 3/2 sashes with stone sills and deep lintels. First floor windows flank oval tablet recessed in centre and inscribed The White House: above is datestone, probably reset, inscribed T B M, dated 1700 and bearing a heart motif. Raised and cogged first floor band and projecting eaves band both returned across left gable end. Rear: former farm building has inserted tall 4-light window in gable end. INTERIOR: firebeam with billet mould, cove and beaded front: chamfered ceiling beams, 4-panel doors. Former farm building has curved purlins and cross beam.

Listing NGR: SJ2993076714