Rockyfold Farmhouse

SO 33 SW MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY CP -

4/56 Rockyfold Farmhouse

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• II

Farmhouse. Probably C17, altered in C20. Thinly coursed rubble; asbestos slate, corrugated iron and stone slate roof. C20 brick gable end chimneys. L-plan longhouse derivative. Two-bay cross-wing at south end of 2-bay north/ south range which extends to north as byre (1 bay) and later C19 cow house and loft (also one bay); C20 lean-to in re-entrant angle and to part of south flank of cross-wing. East elevation: wide gable to left with rebuilt chimney, small stair-light to left and wider (former 5-light mullioned) window to right, raking-top dormer in return; north/south range has C20 rebuilt walling, raking- top dormer, 3-light casement to ground floor with concrete lintol and C20 gabled porch to right. The cow-byre extension with tin roof has a blocked doorway with a slab-hood and to the right, the present door; to the right again, a C20 window with concrete lintol; the right hand bay (under stone slate roof) is slightly taller and has a loft door. South flank has a depressed 2-centred arch head doorway at west end; there is another at west entrance to cow byre (now masked by later buildings). Interior: one pair of cruck blades, truncated below collar level in byre just north of its junction with domestic part; formerly a plank and muntin screen divided the 2 bays of the cross-wing; diamond section mullion slots in window opening at first floor level between the 2 byres; similar slots in opening for 4-light window in ground floor west wall of south byre.

Listing NGR: SO3161833681