Rocky Side

Rocky Side is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private dwelling. It likely dates from the early 16th century and was remodeled in the 17th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof. It faces away from the road and features a tall lateral rubble hall stack at the front, which has offsets, and a brick stack at the left end. The layout includes a through-passage, a hall, an inner room, and a room above the cart entrance. The lower end, which used to be farm buildings, has been completely rebuilt to create a separate cottage that is not included in the listing.

The farmhouse is two stories high and has a four-window range. Most of the windows have been replaced in the 20th century, except for a half dormer that contains a 19th-century two-light casement window with six panes per light in its lower half, and a two-light timber mullion window at the right end. The cart entrance features large double plank doors.

Inside, the hall and inner room have stop-chamfered beams. There are old chamfered doorframes at the rear of the inner room, between the hall and inner room, and from the through-passage to the hall. The stair turret doorway at the rear of the hall has a stop-chamfered door surround, which is similar to the surround of the upper storey rear passage doorway. The hall and inner room are supported by two raised cruck trusses, one of which has a fragment of moulded plasterwork cornice surviving at the foot of the rear blade. The truss over the lower end shows some slight smoke-blackening and has a collar tenoned into the soffit mortices of the blades, while the other truss is clean and features a lap-jointed collar, suggesting it may be an early 17th-century replacement. Another truss at the gable end of the main range forms a closed partition with the chamber above the cart entrance, although it cannot be closely inspected. The two principal trusses have threaded purlins, and the ridge purlin is partly intact. Additionally, at the base of the stair turret on what was once the outside wall, now enclosed by a dairy, there is a small timber two-light window with pointed arches that has been plastered over on the dairy side.