Rockery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rockery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-window-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 57 SW 4/174 2.5.1968
PRIEST HUTTON WHITEBECK LANE Rockery Cottage
II
House, C17th. Pebbledashed rubble with steep slate roof. 2-unit plan with gable stacks and former central entry, the entrance now being through a modern extension against the left-hand gable. 2 storeys, 3 windows on ground floor, 2 on 1st floor, all modern with plain reveals except left-hand ground-floor window which is of 3-lights and rebated and chamfered with mullions. Left-hand chimney cap is round, on a square base which is carried on a wooden corbelled frame beneath the apex. At the rear are later lean-to extensions and windows with plain reveals.
Interior. Left-hand room has former firehood bressumer and a C18th moulded shouldered fireplace with moulded cornice mantel. Rising from this room is a spiral stair of old wood. Visible in the partition wall between the 2 units on the 1st floor is an upper cruck rising from a ground-floor ceiling beam. It has a light collar and redundant halvings, which indicate re-use. The eaves have been raised and the house is said to have been thatched within living memory.
Listing NGR: SD5289073828
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