Rockfield Tower

Detached four-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1780. Comprising windbreak and recessed end-bay to front (east) elevation and two-stage irregular-plan tower to south elevation, with single-storey lean-to and squinch to front elevation and two-storey lean-to to north elevation. Pitched slate roof having brick eaves course and red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with buttresses to tower, front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak with replacement uPVC door. Square-headed opening to south elevation having replacement timber panelled door with glazed panel. Flight of limestone steps to entrance with rubble stone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch perpendicular to front elevation adjoining four-bay two-storey outbuilding to east. Pitched slate roof with limestone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having double-leaf timber battened doors. Attached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east. Pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Pair of round-profile rubble limestone piers to east having rubble stone cappings, double-leaf cast-iron gates and rubble limestone walls with limestone cappings and pointed arch pedestrian entrances having timber battened doors.

Rockfield Tower is a fine example of a multi-period house, having an early core and a later block at a right angle. The earliest part appears to be a tower house, modified in the late eighteenth century, when the later blocks were added. The outbuildings are solidly built with good quality materials, while the unusual entrance piers are of design distinction and add artistic interest to the site.