Description

AVETON GIFFORD FORE STREET
SX 64 NE
(east side)
4/26
Rockhill House
- II
Detached house on street junction. Early C19. Rendered rubble, exposed to back
wall, double Roman tile roof. A compact, symmetrical central stair hall hipped
block, set back from street frontage. Two storeys and attic, 3 windows; 16-pane
sash, but 12-pane over central 6-panel door in panelled reveals and under flat-
roofed canopy on 2 slender iron columns, sides glazed. Return to Rock Hill is
plain, but with hipped dormer having glazed cheeks, and two large eaves stacks
in stone, one of these cropped; left return similar, stacks raised in brick.
Back has wide spaced 16-pane sashes, and central glazed door at landing level
giving access via a small bridge to the garden. Interior not inspected. A
house of greater importance in a very ordinary street row.

Listing NGR: SX6935947520

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401952

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5