Rock House is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1950. A Victorian House.

Rock House

WRENN ID
sleeping-keystone-aspen
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1950
Type
House
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

Description

House, red brick, Flemish bond, with slate hipped roof and massive red brick stack on left roof slope, another to rear right. Tall three-storey and attic, four-bay front with narrower windows in right bay. Four sloping eaves dormers with sash windows, three 8-pane and the fourth narrower, 6-pane. Dentilled brick eaves, cambered headed openings to first and second floors with 16-pane sash windows except in right bay which has narrow 12-pane sashes. On ground floor left a modern garage entry replaces the C19 shopfront, then a good timber columned porch with two front columns, pilaster responds and corniced entablature, in front of cambered-headed doorway with six-panel door, the top four glazed. To right, set between the third and fourth bays a later C19 or early C20 canted 3-light bay window with 2-4-2-pane horned sash glazing and moulded cornice. To right is a two-storey, one bay wing with front of rubble stone with brick courses under eaves, slate roof and brick N end stack. A brick cambered-headed window each floor with renewed 2-light window below and 16-pane horned sash window above. Left side elevation shared with Llwyn Cottage, with right bay only part of Rock House. First floor and second floor similar 16-pane sash window and 8-pane eaves dormer.

Interior not fully inspected. Ground floor has narrow entrance hall with mid C18 staircase. Turned column-on-vase balusters, moulded rail and thick turned column-and-vase newels. Narrow room to right has two squared beams, and two-panel door on back wall.

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