Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- fossil-finial-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, Maddacombe Road, Kingskerswell, TQ12 5LF
- OS grid reference
- SX 874 676
- Coordinates
- 50.49814, -3.58777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a house dating from around the 1840s and 1850s, built after the Tithe Map surveys. It has stuccoed walls and a slate roof with two rendered brick gable end stacks. The house follows a double-depth plan, featuring two main heated rooms on the front, one on either side of a central entrance hall. This hall leads to a narrow stairwell and then to a back door, with service rooms located at the rear.
The three-window front is symmetrical, incorporating original 12-pane hornless sash windows. The central entrance has a contemporary six-panelled door topped with a rectangular fanlight and a flat hood, embellished with a simple moulded cornice supported by heavy Doric columns. Inside, the original open-well staircase retains turned newels, stick balusters, and a curtail step.
Attached to the left end is a probable contemporary stable and linhay. The stable adjoins the house and features Gothic pointed doorways on either side of the front wall. Above the stable is a granary reached by stone steps on the rear courtyard side. Attached at right angles to the stable at the rear is an open-fronted linhay.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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