Rock House and Rose Cottage
ROCK HOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE, SMITHY BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293379
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House and Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE, SMITHY BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293379
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House and Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE, SMITHY BANK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE AND ROSE COTTAGE, SMITHY BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07246 42099
Details
ALTON C.P. SMITHY BANK (East side) SK 0642-0742 13/56 Rock House and Rose Cottage - GV II
Pair of semi-detached houses. Circa 1840. Ashlar with edged herring- bone tooling and smooth faced ashlar dressings; slate roofs with coped verges; brick integral end stacks and ashlar integral end stack. Tudor Gothic style; aligned north-south facing west, Rock House to the north projecting west. Rose Cottage to the south. Rock House to the left. Rose cottage set back to the right. Rock House: 2 storeys with boldly projecting eaves cornice; 2 bays, 2-light chamfer mullioned windows in rebated frames; central blind doorway with 4-centred head containing a window. Rose Cottage: 2 storeys with boldly projecting eaves cornice; 2 bays, 2-light chamfer mullioned windows in rebated frames; central doorway with 4-centred head.
Listing NGR: SK0724642099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275052
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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