The Rocklands is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1974. Farmhouse, farm building. 1 related planning application.
The Rocklands
- WRENN ID
- graven-chalk-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse, farm building
- Address
- The Rocklands, Woodfall Lane, Neston, CH64 4BT
- OS grid reference
- SJ 299 767
- Coordinates
- 53.28277, -3.05242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rocklands is a farmhouse and former farm building located in Little Neston Village. The farm building dates back to the 17th century, while the house was built in the mid-18th century with some alterations made in the 19th century. In the late 20th century, the house was extended and converted to incorporate the farm building, resulting in a single private dwelling.
The house is constructed of brown brick in English garden wall bond, set on a painted stone plinth, and features a slate roof with brick end stacks. The former farm building is made of coursed rubble stone. The exterior of the house has a two-storey, three-bay front with a single-storey gabled porch extension in the center. To the right, there is a single-storey, two-window extension that links to the former farm building at the rear. The porch door is glazed and has a radial glazed fanlight. The windows are recessed unequal 3/2 sashes with stone sills and deep lintels. On the first floor, the windows flank an oval tablet that is recessed in the center and inscribed with "The White House." Above this is a datestone, likely reset, inscribed with "T B M," dated 1700, and featuring a heart motif. There is a raised and cogged first-floor band and a projecting eaves band that both return across the left gable end.
At the rear, the former farm building has a tall four-light window inserted in the gable end. Inside, there is a firebeam with a billet mould, a cove and beaded front, chamfered ceiling beams, and four-panel doors. The former farm building features curved purlins and a cross beam.
Local climate
The Rocklands sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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