Rock Cottage

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA ATKINS HILL TQ 75 SE (North side)

1/1 Rock Cottage (Formerly listed 23.5.67 as Rock Cottages, Boughton Quarries)

GV II*

House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Possibly lobby entry plan. 4 timber-framed bays (including 2-bay principal room to left of stack), and stack bay. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty returning to right on moulded dragon post. Roof hipped to left with gablet, gabled to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in narrow second bay from right. Slender projecting brown brick stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; three 3-light and one 2-light under stack. Evidence for oriel window to right hall bay. Rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with lean-to roof and moulded coved base to first floor of right gable end. Similar 10-light oriel window on stone base under jetty below. C16 boarded door in moulded rectangular architrave to left end of left bay of principal room. Blocked door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded cross and axial beams to principal room on each floor. Newel staircase between stack and former front door. Shutter grooves. Dropped doorheads. 4 fireplaces to principal stack; those to principal room on each floor with moulded stone jambs and cambered bressumers, with moulded mantel-shelf to first floor, those to right end room on each floor entirely stone. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters. Jettying contrived without dragon-beam.

Listing NGR: TQ7686651889