Rocher Farmhouse Including Adjoining Barn

Rocher Farmhouse, which includes an adjoining barn that is now partly converted for domestic use, dates back to 1667, as indicated by the date on the door lintel. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with gritstone quoins and features a stone slate roof.

The house, which has a former baffle-entry plan, is two storeys high and has three windows on the first floor. There is a doorway to the left that has been partially blocked and fitted with a casement window. This doorway has quoined reveals and a deep lintel with the date displayed in a lozenge-shaped panel, topped with a hoodmould. Another doorway has been inserted near the centre, featuring an ashlar surround. To the right of this doorway is a 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with decorative square stops on the hoodmould, and to the left is a similar 4-light window with a hoodmould that has been truncated by a newly inserted door surround. The first floor has two double-chamfered 3-light windows, and to the far left, there is a 20th-century casement window above an infilled doorway. The house also features moulded kneelers and chamfered gable copings, with renewed stone stacks at each end.

The adjoining barn to the left has a central round-arched cart entrance that has been infilled, with a door inserted. To the right, there are 20th-century wood casement windows on each floor. To the left, there is an old boarded door with a casement window to its right. Lean-to extensions on the left side of the barn and the right return of the house are not considered of special interest.