Rockview — Inistioge

Detached four-bay two-storey house, c.1875, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site with two-storey canted bay window to right, and three-bay two-storey recessed lower wing to left on an L-shaped plan incorporating canted bay window to centre ground floor with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay to left. Renovated. Hipped slate roof (continuing into half-polygonal section to canted bay window; pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan to wing) with clay ridge tiles (decorative clay ridge tiles to wing), rendered chimney stacks, rooflights to wing, timber bargeboards to gables having finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging rendered box eaves. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows; in tripartite arrangement to ground floor to end bay to wing having Venetian window opening over to first floor) with rendered sills (forming sill course to canted bay windows), and one-over-one timber sash windows (some possibly replacement with one-over-one sidelights to tripartite and to Venetian openings; three-over-six timber sash window to canted bay window to wing having one-over-two sidelights). Segmental-headed door opening under cut-stone Doric doorcase (with columns having responsive pilasters supporting frieze, entablature, and moulded cornice supporting blocking course) with timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed flanking door openings with glazed timber panelled double doors. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site overlooking River Nore.