Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- white-chalk-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, New Road, Penkridge, ST19 5DN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 924 139
- Coordinates
- 52.72317, -2.11311
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is an early 19th-century house that was shown on the Ordnance Survey map as a vicarage. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and a central brick stack. The building has two storeys and is arranged with three windows that contain 16-pane glazing bar sashes. The central entrance is a six-panelled door that is sheltered by a Tuscan portico.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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