Rock House is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. A C18 House.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- noble-rafter-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, 37, High Street, Bathford
- OS grid reference
- ST 790 668
- Coordinates
- 51.40068, -2.30187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house dating from the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of ashlar with quoins and features a double Roman tiled roof with coped raised verges, behind a partly balustraded parapet, and a modillioned cornice. The architectural style is Provincial Baroque. The building has two storeys and attics with modern dormers, and it is three bays wide. The windows are glazing bar sash types set in moulded architraves with carved keystones. Notably, there is a blocked Venetian window with a flat shell in the arch on the first floor, while the casement window below is a 20th-century addition. The central entrance features a six-panel door within an elaborately moulded architrave, topped by a swan-neck pediment on consoles. Inside, the ground floor room boasts a decorative plaster ceiling and two shell-headed niches flanking the fireplace, with the right-hand niche having panelled doors. Historical documents suggest the house dates to around 1723.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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