Rowthorne House

Rowthorne House is a late 18th-century farmhouse, now used as offices. It is located in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester. The house is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the front and sides, with the rear in English garden wall bond. It has a composition tile roof. The building has a rectangular, double-depth plan and a symmetrical three-window facade. The original central round-headed doorway has been blocked and is now covered by a 20th-century porch designed to resemble an 18th-century doorcase with an open pediment. The windows have been altered, with ground-floor windows enlarged and fitted with 20th-century bowed fronts and upper windows replaced with 20th-century tilting casements, all with flat-arched heads constructed with gauged brick. There is a dentil-detailed wooden eaves cornice and brick gable chimneys. A single-storey addition was added in the 20th century to the left end. The rear of the house, facing the barn, has a 20th-century porch to the back door but is otherwise largely original. It features two large, segmental-headed, six-light windows on each floor, with small panes. Most of these windows have a horizontal-sliding sash opening in the lower tier; however, the window to the right on the ground floor has been restored with joinery in a matching style, except that the opening is a top-hung casement. Two semicircular steps, the upper one made of wood, are located below the other ground floor window, likely remnants of a former milk-churn stand. The interior has been altered. The house forms a group with the adjacent barn, which is approximately 10 metres to the north.