Rockcliffe is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 16 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Rockcliffe and Harker, and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings include houses and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, a church with a mediaeval cross in the churchyard, a public house, and a milestone.
The cross is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church. It is in calciferous sandstone and is very weathered. The cross consists of a shaft with two broad bands, and is decorated with dragons and interlace, and at the top is a wheel-head cross. The cross is also a Scheduled Monument.[2][3][4]
The house was extended and altered in the 20th century. It is rendered, with stone dressings, a mouldedcornice, and a green slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys and three bays, and a two-storey three-bay extension to the right. The round-headed doorway has a moulded surround with springers, a false keystone, and a radial fanlight. The windows in the original part are sashes with moulded stone sills, and in the extension they are casements with wooden surrounds.[5]
The farmhouse and outbuildings are in brick with a Welsh slate roof, and have two storeys. The house has three bays, the extension to the right has three bays, and an outbuilding further to the right also has three bays. The doorway has an alternate block surround, and the windows are sashes. In the outbuilding are two entrances with segmental heads, and ventilation slits.[8]
The milestone was provided for the Carlisle to LongtownTurnpike. It is in sandstone with a rounded top, and carries a recessed circular cast iron plate inscribed with the distance in miles to Carlisle.[9]
A former farmhouse in brick that has a slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys, three bays, and a two-storey two-bay extension. The doorway has a surround of pilaster strips, an open mouldedpediment, and a radial fanlight. The windows are sashes with flat brick arches and stone sills.[10]
A country house that was extended and turned round in 1851–52. It is in calciferous sandstone on a chamferedplinth, and has angle pilaster strips, a mouldedcornice, a parapet, and a hipped green slate roof. The main part has two storeys and five bays, with flanking pedimented wings of two storeys and two bays. To the right are extensions of two storeys and one bay, and of one storey and three bays. On the garden front is a stepped tetrastyleportico with square columns, a moulded cornice, and a cast iron balcony. The doorway has a round-headed patterned fanlight, the windows in the ground floor are casements, and elsewhere they are sashes. The rear entrance is flanked by two Doric columns.[11][12]
Around the entrance to the drive are six stone piers with vase finials. On each side of the drive, these are joined by serpentine shapedsandstone walls with cast iron speared railings. The gates are re-set on steel pillars behind the original piers.[13]
The public house was extended in the 20th century; it is stuccoed and has a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, a single-storey two-bay extension to the left, and a two-storey two-bay landlord's house to the right. Both the original part and the extension have brick porches and sash windows. The landlord's house has a doorway with a stone surround, sash windows, and gableddormers.[15]
The farmhouse and outbuildings are in sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. The farmhouse has two storeys and three bays, and a doorway and sash windows with stone surrounds. To the right is a two-storey two-bay outbuilding with a hipped roof. To the left, giving an L-shaped plan, is another two-storey outbuilding containing plank doors and ventilation slits. To the left of this is a lean-to single-storey gin gang with a hipped roof.[16]
Originally a gardener's cottage for Harker Lodge, it has rendered walls and a Welsh slate roof. There is one storey and three bays. The doorway has a stone surround, a mouldedcornice, and a fanlight, and the windows are sashes with stone sills.[17]
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