Rothwell House

Rothwell House is a farmhouse, later converted into a house, dating to the mid-18th century and subsequently altered. It is constructed of handmade red and yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern (with the sides and rear walls using a red brick English garden wall bond), featuring a sandstone rubble plinth and a slate roof. The house has a rectangular, double-depth four-room plan.

The exterior presents a largely symmetrical facade with two windows. It has a plinth of graduated masonry, approximately one meter high, and a segmental-headed doorway offset to the left, flanked by a deep rough-brick arch and a keystone. The ground floor windows are cross-window sliding sashes with similar arched heads and keystones; the ground floor sashes have been replaced, and the first floor windows have flat-arched heads, lead-sheet sills, and original small-paned leaded glazing. Gable chimneys are present.

The left gable wall includes an inserted doorway to a rear room and several windows. The rear elevation features an inserted two-light sliding sash window replacing the original back door, a staircase cross-window in the center, an inserted doorway where a former dairy window stood, and sliding sash windows of two and three lights on the first floor.

Inside, the left front room is accessible directly. The ground floor rooms retain chamfered beams, pegged oak doorcases with run-out stops, and batten-and-board doors with lug hinges on both floors. A dogleg staircase and former dairy have been altered.

Rothwell House is a good example of its type and period. It forms a group with a wash-house approximately five meters south-west.