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
Country: England
Date first listed: 1 February 1956
Type: House
Source: Historic England listing

Description

ST 7866-7966 BATHFORD C.P. HIGH STREET (North-west side) 9/55 1.2.56 No. 37 (Rock House) G.V. II*

House. Early - mid C18th. Ashlar with quoins; double Roman tiled roof with coped raised verges, behind partly balustraded parapet; modillioned cornice. Provincial Baroque. 2 storeys and attics in modern dormers. 3 bays. Glazing bar sash windows in moulded architraves with carved keystones; in centre of first floor, is a blocked Venetian window with a flat shell in the arch (the casement window below is a C20th insertion). Central 6 panel door in elaborately moulded architrave, under swan-neck pediment on consoles. Interior: ground floor room has decorative plaster ceiling and 2 shell-headed niches to sides of fireplace; right hand one has panelled doors. Deeds suggest date of c.1723.

Listing NGR: ST7909766893

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