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Rock House — Annestown

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Rock House — Annestown
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1775, retaining some original fenestration with single-bay single-storey canted bay window to side (west) elevation, and two-bay two-storey over part-raised basement return to north incorporating fabric of earlier building, c.1700, with pair of single-bay single-storey gabled projecting bays to west, and single-bay single-storey lean-to infill bay to north-east. Renovated, c.1875, with single-bay two-storey bowed bay window added to side (east) elevation. Renovated and part refenestrated, pre-1999, with two-bay single-storey lean-to projecting glazed porch added to front. Hipped slate roof (pitched to return; gabled to projecting bays; lean-to to infill bay) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Lean-to fibre-cement slate roof to porch with timber eaves. Painted roughcast walls (unpainted to rear (north) elevation). Painted cement rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 1/1 and 2/2 timber sash windows with some replacement uPVC casement windows, pre-1999. Square-headed door opening in lean-to projecting porch with glazed uPVC door, and fixed-pane uPVC lights to porch. Set back from line of road in own grounds on elevated site with random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter.(ii) Detached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted rubble stone outbuilding, c.1775, to west with elliptical-headed carriageway. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Random rubble stone walls lime mortar. Elliptical-headed carriageway with cut-stone voussoirs, and replacement timber boarded double doors, pre-1999.

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