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Rock Lodge

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Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, having timber porch to front (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves having timber brackets. Rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to front elevation, end bays having bipartite timber casement windows to first floor and bipartite timber casement Y-traceried windows to ground floor. Square-headed opening to porch with glazed overlight and flanking sidelights. Round-headed opening having spoked fanlight over timber panelled door. Rubble limestone crenellated wall to east with segmental-headed door opening. Single-bay two-storey outbuilding to south, rubble stone gable-fronted outbuilding with corrugated iron roof pitched roof. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed opening having corrugated iron door to east elevation.
An elegantly proportioned, middle-size house with distinctive features, which include some bipartite window openings that enhance the formal architectural quality of the composition. The survival of attendant outbuildings to the grounds, including a crenellated curtain wall, enhances the group and setting qualities of the site.

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