Rock House with Retaining Wall and Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1985. House.

Rock House with Retaining Wall and Steps

WRENN ID
crooked-copper-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 August 1985
Type
House
Address
Rock House with Retaining Wall and Steps, High Street, Malpas, SY14 8NN
OS grid reference
SJ 487 472
Coordinates
53.02027, -2.76579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock House, built in the late 17th century with an early 19th-century front, is a house constructed of brown Flemish bond brick and topped with a grey slate roof. It features a cellar, two storeys, and an attic, with three windows. The lower storey sits 2 metres above street level and includes an almost full-length slate-roofed canopy that is hipped to the right and adjoins adjacent buildings on the left, supported by three shaped wooden brackets. The entrance door consists of two fielded panels above flush reeded panels and has a rectangular overlight. To the right, there is a canted bay window with a four-pane front sash and two-pane side sashes, while a square bay window on the left has red brick corner piers and features three two-pane sashes at the front and one on each side. The upper storey contains three flush twelve-pane sashes set under camber arches with projecting stone cills. The eaves are deep boxed with open pediment verges, and there is a projecting gable chimney on the right.

Inside, the cellar has a chamfered oak beam and an altered inglenook with a bevelled oak bressummer in the left front room. The door to the right front room features a late Georgian case, and the rear room has two chamfered oak beams, one of which is ogee-stopped. A good oak stair, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, has massive square newels, a shaped oak rail that sweeps at the first floor, and two stout turned balusters per step, all painted. The building also includes oak purlins and broad-board doors with long hinges and wrought iron latches.

Local climate

Rock House with Retaining Wall and Steps receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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