Rock Cottage

Rock Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages, dating from the late 16th century. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. The layout may follow a lobby entry plan, consisting of four timber-framed bays, including a two-bay principal room to the left of the stack. The building stands two storeys high on a stone plinth and has close-studded framing. A continuous jetty extends to the right, supported by a moulded dragon post. The roof is hipped to the left with a gablet and gabled to the right. There is a multiple brick ridge stack in the second bay from the right and a slender projecting brown brick stack at the left gable end.

The fenestration is irregular, featuring four leaded casements: three are three-light and one is two-light located under the stack. There is evidence of an oriel window in the right hall bay, and a rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with a lean-to roof and moulded coved base is located on the first floor of the right gable end. A similar 10-light oriel window sits on a stone base beneath the jetty. The left end of the principal room has a 16th-century boarded door framed by a moulded rectangular architrave, and there is a blocked door under the stack.

Inside, the building retains exposed framing, with moulded cross and axial beams in the principal room on each floor. A newel staircase is positioned between the stack and the former front door. There are shutter grooves and dropped doorheads throughout. The principal stack contains four fireplaces; those in the principal room on each floor have moulded stone jambs and cambered bressumers, with a moulded mantel-shelf on the first floor. The fireplaces in the right end room on each floor are entirely stone. The roof features clasped purlins with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters, and the jettying is achieved without a dragon-beam.