Description

1.
5280 CHEVENING CHIPSTEAD
High Street
(South Side)
The Rock House
TQ 5056 SW 3/147 10.9.54.

II GV

2.
Irregular house, largely of C16. Front shows 2-storey, 4-window left part,
oversailing at left. Projecting, gabled, one-window right part oversails on
3 sides with dragon beams now boxed in. Old brackets visible at left. Roof
of high pitch, tiles renewed in C19 and bargeboard added to gable. Moulded
plastered eaves. Front all stuccoed with incised lines. Casement windows under
hoodmoulds, (except below jetties) that on ground floor centre with Tudor heads
to lights. Tudor arched doorway with hoodmould to traceried door. The whole
front a mid C19 restoration. Under right part a retaining wall of coursed galletted
rubble with red brick quoins. Modern left extensions. Inside much exposed
timber and a restored inglenook. On ground floor front some late C18 and Regency
painted panelling. Some flights of a staircase of circa 1700. C17 arcaded brick
cellar built on to rock hewn chapel of transitional appearance, circa 1200.

The Rock House, Stables, cobbled yard and Walls form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5022956150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544280

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)