Rock House With Retaining Wall And Steps

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.