Rock House And Attached Shop

Rock House and the attached shop, built around 1780 with the shop added around 1890, is located in Christleton. The building features white pointed Flemish bond orange brick with sandstone dressings and a Welsh slate roof, topped with a single long gable brick chimney. The house is 2½ stories tall with a symmetrical three-bay front facing north. It has a stone plinth and a gable designed as a triangular pediment, complete with a stone cornice and coping. The windows are 12-pane sashes with flat wedged stone heads and stone sills. The entrance features a tripartite doorcase with a triangular pediment, accessed by two stone steps, and includes marginal lights and a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. The five-panelled door has its original medallion knocker.

To the east, there is a one-storey shop built in Ruabon brick, which has a large window with glazing bars, an original door, and a ventilation grill beneath an egg and dart cornice, along with a coped and finialled blocking course. Inside, the layout is unusual, consisting of two large rooms behind a passage. The kitchen has a stone arcade over the ovens, while the main room features a dado rail. There is a very simple original staircase. A graffito on the landing window reads "Thomas Merrick 1788." This building was the last home of William Huggins, a local Victorian animal painter, whose gravestone can be found in the nearby churchyard.