Nos 1, 2 And 3 Rock Cottages Including Garden Wall To The West

Nos 1, 2, and 3 Rock Cottages, together with a garden wall to the west, are a house divided into three separate dwellings, originally perhaps four small cottages. The front block (Nos 1 and 2, now combined) likely dates from the late 17th or early 18th century, while the rear block (No 3) was constructed around the mid-19th century. The ground floor of the front block is directly built onto the sandstone quarry on which the property sits, the stone being dressed in place to form the walls. The first floor is timber-framed and clad in late 19th or 20th-century clay tiles, featuring brick stacks and a peg-tile roof. No 3 is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a tiled roof and two stone stacks.

The property is situated immediately southeast of the south lychgate to the parish church. The front block, facing west, originally comprised two rooms, with projecting end stacks serving as fireplaces for the main rooms, and smaller service rooms at the rear. A central entrance leads to the staircase, with a second entrance in the left (north) gable end. No 3 adjoins the rear (east) on the same axis, including two lateral stacks, a front door on the south return, and another entrance on the north end of the east elevation. The southern lateral stack is either a 20th-century addition or a complete rebuilding. A painting held in the National Monuments Record shows Nos 1 and 2 prior to the construction of No 3, with the first-floor framing exposed and a weatherboarded lean-to porch on the west elevation - this porch no longer exists.

The west front presents a symmetrical three-bay façade featuring a moulded eaves cornice, gabled roof, and a central 20th-century front door with a flat porch hood. The brick stack has handmade shafts and moulded caps. There are 20th-century two-light casements on the upper floor, left and right, while the central window is blocked. The ground floor has two similar three-light casements. A gable end doorway is cut through the quarry stone on the left return, and a single window is present on both the front block’s first and ground floors on the right return as well. The rear block has a 19th-century front door and a matching 16-pane sash window above. The east elevation includes a 19th-century front door and two sashes between the lateral stacks.

Inside, the ground floor rooms are plain, with late 17th-century chamfered cross beams on the first floor accompanied by hollow step stops. A wall post with a square cut jowl is visible in the rear first-floor room. The roof structure consists of side purlins, with butt purlins to the north end of Nos 1 and 2; the roof timbers on the right end have been replaced.

The listing includes an incomplete coped stone garden wall to the west of Nos 1 and 2, alongside a likely late 19th-century pump that remains in working order outside No 3.