Rockfield Park

Rockfield Park is a late-Georgian house with earlier origins. The building has a symmetrical three-window façade and a tall hipped roof. It is constructed of white-painted render over sandstone rubble, with blue slate roofs and rendered chimneys. The plan is approximately rectangular, aligned east-west, with a single-depth three-bay front range and coupled rear wings, more than doubling the building's area. A short 19th-century lean-to extension extends from the rear, and a 20th-century extension is attached to the south side of the front range.

The front range, two-and-a-half storeys high with a cellar, features a plinth, a first-floor band, and oversailing modillioned eaves. The central doorway has a panelled door, now approached via a 20th-century three-bay Ionic-style porch, flanked by large tripartite hornless sash windows. There are three 12-pane hornless sash windows on the first floor, and a hipped roof that sweeps over the eaves with three flat-roofed dormers, each containing a six-pane sash window. Two wide chimney stacks with four flues rise from the lower slope of the rear roof. A square, single-storey, flat-roofed 20th-century extension with a 12-pane sash window is attached to the right-hand (south) end of the façade. A doorway to the cellar is on the north side of the front range. The north rear wing has a pair of tall 12-pane sashes at ground floor and an Edwardian-style oriel window above, with small-pane glazing in the top section. The south rear wing, three storeys high, has two windows and a doorway at ground floor, three windows above these, all with segmental heads and 12-pane hornless sashes. A 6-pane sash window is located above the first window on the main floors.

Inside, a dog-legged staircase rises from a wide entrance hallway, featuring stick balusters and a ramped mahogany handrail. The lower flight has a cut string and a newel post of around 1900 style at the foot, while the upper flight has a closed string. A dining room in the north wing is accessed by two doors from a central service passage, and includes a classical-style screen at its eastern end. The south rear wing contains a servants' staircase. Within the attic of the front range, the lower portions of two principal-rafter roof trusses are visible, the feet resting on wall-posts approximately one metre high. Raked principal rafters of the hip are present at each end, with trenched purlins running just below ceiling level. This roof structure appears to date from the early to mid-18th century.