Roke

This is a house, originally a vicarage, dating from the late 18th century, with alterations and extensions circa 1857 and subsequent changes. The walls are of roughly coursed slatestone rubble at the front, covered with slate on the rear. It has two brick axial stacks and a hipped slate roof. The rooms are arranged around a square plan, with a central well and a lobby containing a back staircase, which may have been moved. The north wing contains the earliest part of the house, originally the kitchen and service area, with rooms opening off a corridor. The east or garden front has three rooms, the largest of which opens off the entrance hall, followed by a sizable room and a smaller one contained within the older part of the house. The west side features a large room, possibly originally two, with a small leading wing. The south side has the entrance and stairhall, with a built-out section from 1857. The symmetrical, three-bay entrance front of 1857 has a gabled porch and flat-roofed extensions, featuring four-pane sash windows and a 20th-century six-panel door. First-floor windows are 2-light casements in ogee-headed openings with intersecting tracery. A small wing extends to the left, with an overhanging slate-hung first floor and an ogee-headed window on its front. The east garden front is five windows wide, with a straight joint indicating where the old and newer sections meet. The ground-floor windows extend to ground level; a circa early Victorian verandah runs along this front supported by wooden columns. The right-hand elevation has circa early 19th-century 12 and 16-pane hornless sashes and is slate-hung to the rear. Interior features include six-panel doors, a decorative ceiling band in the drawing room, panelled shutters, and a staircase with column newels, stick balusters, and decorative tread ends. It is a good-quality example of a vicarage that has been little altered and retains its unusually shaped late 18th-century windows.