Rock House, Including Boundary Wall And Pump

YETMINSTER ST 5910 QUEEN STREET (West side)

11/164 Rock House, including boundary 31.7.61 wall and pump

GV II

Detached house, c1720, altered in early C19. Rubble stone walls with raised ashlar quoins, tiled roof with coped gables, brick end stacks. 2 storey and attics. L-shaped plan, with a later C19 rear infil block. East elevation, to Queen Street, has a 6-panel raised panel door in open porch with concave pyramidal roof on slender columns. Ground floor has 2 stone mullioned windows - flat mullions, the one left of door with casements with glazing bars, the one right of door with sashes with glazing bars. 2 similar windows on first floor. Small casement in attic gable at right end. Elevation to High Street has, at left end, a 2-storeyed semi-circular bow window, with stone mullions and sashes with vertical glazing bars, moulded cornice and flat roof. Right of this on each floor, a 2-light stone mullioned window with sashes with vertical glazing bars. Pump at rear of house dated 1811. Internally: Ground floor room in south-east corner has large fireplace with C18 surround. Room in north-east corner has plaster cornice with acanthus detail. Several raised panel doors. Door at rear of kitchen in chamfered stone surround. Stone boundary wall along High Street.

Listing NGR: ST5933010830