Rockley Manor

SU 17 SE OGBOURNE ST ANDREW ROCKLEY 7/52 Rockley Manor 27.2.58 II* Large house. C18, extended later C18 and additions of C19. Restored C20 is style of the later C18. Stucco on stone and brick. Slate roof. Two storeys, cellars and attics. Double pile plan. Main garden front symmetrical, of 5 bays, the central 3 bays slightly set forward and pedimented. Central 6-panelled door and flanking 8-pane sashes enclosed in Ionic tetrastyle flush portico. Flanking windows with moulded surrounds and aprons, and segmental pediments, and outer windows similar with triangular pediments. Venetian central window to first floor, and 9-pane sashes. Oculus in pediment, which is extended as heavily dentilled eaves. Two 6- pane flat roofed dormers in hipped roof. South front to left also of 5 bays with central glazed door between large canted columned bays, and across front a C20 raised Tuscan portico forming covered terrace. Dentilled eaves on returns, and 2 dormers. Three parallel hipped roofs, the centre one with a wooden bell tower. Internally: Garden front opens into apsidal hall with niches and dentilled cornice, opening left to drawing room with Adamesque ceiling and good fireplace. Cross passage with dado panelling from south front leads to stair at north side (not seen). Library in south-west corner has Adam style fireplace. Later extensions beyond library and on north side.

Listing NGR: SU1624871897