Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-porch-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, 55, Bank Lane, Denby Dale
- OS grid reference
- SE 226 074
- Coordinates
- 53.56325, -1.65892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a small detached house dated 1684, constructed from thinly coursed dry-walled rubble with quoins and a stone slate roof. The right gable features hollow chamfered coping supported by moulded kneelers, while there is a rendered stack on the left gable. The house has two storeys, with an entrance on the left that is partially blocked, featuring quoins and a very deep lintel inscribed with 'IG 1684 IL'. A hood mould over the entrance extends to the right as a drip mould over the ground floor. The ground floor has a 5-light double chamfered window, and there is a 3-light double chamfered window on the first floor, with a late 18th-century window to its left. The right gable has a later entrance and a 3-light double chamfered window on the first floor, alongside a blocked 2-light window from the 19th century. At the apex of the gable, there is a dovecote with saw-tooth corbelling. A continuous outshut at the rear is of similar date, and the left gable is rendered.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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