124 AND 126, ROKER LANE

This is a house, likely built in the late 18th or early 19th century, which has now been divided into two separate dwellings. The building is constructed of thin, hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof, and extends over three main floors, with an attic and a cellar. The symmetrical front façade features quoins. It has three bays, and the central doorway has tie-stone jambs and a projecting lintel, above which is a semicircular-arched window with coloured margin lights. Each floor is punctuated by three-light, flat-faced mullioned windows with slightly recessed mullions and slightly projecting sills. Moulded brackets support the eaves gutter. Coped gables are topped with stacks; the stack on the left-hand side is made of ashlar, while the one on the right is brick. The rear elevation has altered ground-floor windows on either side of the doorway with monolithic jambs, topped by a square-headed window. The upper floors have the same three-light windows as the front. The right-hand return features a mid-20th century lean-to porch and a former second-floor taking-in door, now partially blocked to create a window with tie-stone jambs.

Inside, most rooms retain original plaster cornices, which also extend around the spine beams. There are panelled window seats and six-panel pine doors throughout. Four rooms contain good cast-iron grates. The roof structure features four bays with queen-post trusses, where the purlins are morticed and pegged.