Rock House And Attached Shop

SJ 46 NW CHRISTLETON C.P. THE VILLAGE (West Side)

3/37 Rock House and attached shop.

GV II

House and butcher's shop : c.1780 with shop added c.1890. White pointed Flemish bond orange brick with sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and 1 long gable brick chimney. 2½-storey symmetrical 3-bay north front to house. Stone plinth. Gable treated as a triangular pediment with stone cornice and coping. 12-pane sashes with flat wedged stone heads and stone sills. Tripartite doorcase with triangular pediment approached by 2 stone steps. Marginal lights and rectangular fanlight with glazing bars. 5-panelled door with original medallion knocker. To east is 1-storey shop in Ruabon brick. Large window with glazing bars and original door and ventilation grill under egg and dart cornice and coped and finialled blocking course. Interior: Odd plan of 2 large rooms behind passage. Kitchen has stone arcade over the ovens. Main room has dado rail. Very simple original staircase. Graffito on landing window reads "Thomas Merrick 1788". Last home of William Huggins, a local Victorian animal painter, his gravestone is in the churchyard (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ4409465636