Rock House

Rock House is a mid-19th century, two-storey and attic house with cellars, originally featuring three windows, with a further window bay added in the 19th century and a later range adjoining to the right. The house is constructed of Flemish bond brick, with a moderately pitched slate roof and a dentil eaves cornice. Plain brick stacks are present. The central, gabled entrance bay projects forward, with a shouldered parapet, urn finials, and a ball finial on the apex. It features an inset semi-circular window with a moulded sill. Later 19th-century gabled dormers with slate roofs and cheeks are visible in the attic. The windows are small-paned, tilting windows with bargeboards. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows. Painted cambered brick voussoir arches support stone sills. To the right of the advanced bay, a window is similar to the others but has been replaced with a modern French window on the left. The ground floor windows on the flanking bays are three-light, while the central window is a 12-pane sash with four-pane sidelights. The sash window on the right has been deepened to create a doorway. The central doorway is flanked by panelled reveals and has a (later) doorcase with an open pediment on brackets over a blind fanlight. The doorway contains a 19th-century double door, partially glazed.

Vaulted passages, constructed under a brick garden terrace, lead to the cellars. Brick piers flank a T-plan garden staircase with stone treads and iron handrails. An outshot has been extended to the rear elevation, alongside a gabled stair bay. The garden is enclosed by an English garden wall built with a brick bond.

The centre block windows have panelled reveals with shutters. Inside, there are good plaster cornices, dado rails, six-panel doors, and an early 19th-century staircase. A late 18th-century chimney piece is located in the parlour. The later range to the right is also of Flemish bond brick with a gently pitched slate roof and a central brick stack, and it has sash windows similar to the main house on the first floor. The ground floor of the later range features large modern picture windows.