Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. House, office. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- little-ledge-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Rock House, 11, Old Hill, City of Wolverhampton, WV6 8QB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 889 000
- Coordinates
- 52.5984, -2.16418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house built in the 1750s, now used as an office, with a rear section that served as a Catholic church from 1931 to 1965. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped tile roof with brick stacks. It has a double-depth plan and a single-storey rear wing. The house stands three storeys tall and has a symmetrical five-window facade. The central part of the building projects forward and is flanked by pilasters. It has a plinth, a first-floor sill band, and a cornice at the top. The basement lights are segmental-headed, while the ground and first-floor windows have rubbed brick flat arches and keystones, with 15-pane sashes on the ground floor and 12-pane sashes on the upper floors. The central entrance features a Gibbs surround, a pediment, and a six-panel door. The right side of the building has a brick cornice and a lateral stack on a high plinth, while the rear gabled wing also has a stack. The single-storey section includes sashed windows and an end lean-to porch. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have 20th-century alterations.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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 — 1 transaction since 2020
- 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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