Rocklyn And Wall To North-East Fronting Station Road

ST1225 MILVERTON CP TURNPIKE

11/258 Rocklyn and wall to North-east fronting Station Road (Rocklyn formerly listed)

25.1.56

GV II

House. Early C17. Rendered over random rubble, slate roof, brick stacks. Main 3 cell block fronting Station Road to West, 2 cell late addition to East, entrance on South front. 2-storeys, 1:2 bays, C20 3-light leaded casements except for unusual 7-light oriel on carved consoles with timber frame below in gable end, single light window over gabled C20 porch to right. Irregularly placed C20 fenestration on 3 bay return to West. Interior: central room contains 4 compartment hollow chamfer ceiling with plaster ovals and frieze. Staircase turret with blocked window rises to East, moulded lintel to fireplace on South wall, backing onto another smaller fireplace with painted floral decoration in reveals. 4 pointed arch doorway heads, one moulded and two with chamfered lintels. The roof is C20. Adjoining red sandstone random rubble wall with brick coping to North-east, swept up at Northern end, fronting Station Road. Rocklyn was an inn for many years and was probably linked at first floor level to buildings to East (not viewed). An early C19 watercolour of the Rock Inn showing this arrangement is reproduced in H L Maynard, The Crown Manor and Burgh of Milverton, 1939. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, March 1979).

Listing NGR: ST1243425891