Description

Mid 19th century cottage enlarged in later 19th century to 2-
storey, asymmetrical, rectangular-plan gabled villa. Whinstone
and sandstone rubble with harl pointing and stugged red
sandstone margins. Base course; quoins; projecting eaves,
exposed rafters.
S ELEVATION: 4 asymmetrical bays. Broad gabled bay
advanced at centre, 2 large windows at ground, bipartite at
gablehead; single storey outshot at corner right return. Bay
recessed to outer right, bipartite off-centre to left, gabled
dormerhead. Block recessed to outer left with timber verandah
formed from roof sweeping down in re-entrant and supported on
posts and curved brackets; gabled dormerhead in roof to right of
block; 2 windows symmetrically placed at ground.
W ELEVATION: 3 asymmetrically disposed bays. Broad
gabled bay to outer right, full-height canted windows, blank
plaque at centre between ground and 1st floor. Lower block
recessed to right with canted conservatory on red sandstone
base built in re-entrant angle. Bay to outer left with single storey
lean-to storage block at ground.
N ELEVATION: single storey and attic, broad, gabled kitchen
block with lean-to single storey projection at ground, 3 bays with
coal-shute door to outer right. Entrance at right return, storage
block advanced to outer left with glazed lean-to roofing over
entrance over door and window. Broad, 2-storey, blank gable
recessed to right with single storey lean-to projection to outer
right, boarded door.
E ELEVATION: 4-bay block of main house with single storey
kitchen block to outer right. Broad advanced gable at
penultimate bay to left, door to ground right, 2-leaf, square
window with bolection moulding to left, small step to door,
window at centre of gablehead. Right return of S gable to outer
left. 2 asymmetrically disposed bays of main block to right,
bipartite window at ground left with large window to right; gabled
dormerhead to left, 2 smaller windows to outer right at 1st floor;
tall stack rising to left of dormerhead; slate-hung wall at right
return. Single storey service block to outer right, door to left
with modern tripartite inserted to right.
Plate glass sash and case windows, 6-pane sash and case
window on E elevation, some relacement pivot and swing
windows. Variegated purple, green and grey slate; tall, corniced
wallhead stacks, octagonal cans.
GATEPIERS: paired square piers with recessed plaques at
centre and corniced, pyramidal caps.
BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with semicircular coping
surrounds house and garden; concave curve between piers.

Statement of Interest

The house began life as Rock Cottage and is marked on the 1st edition OS map. By the 2nd edition map the house has been enlarged and takes the grander title of Rock House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56620694

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5