Description

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SJ 6604
9/100

COALBROOKDALE
DARBY ROAD
Rosehill House

(Formerly listed as The Grange (or The Grove))

GV
II*
Early/mid C18 house, now a museum. Painted brick with stone dressings and hipped plain tile roof. Brick end stacks. Heavy moulded eaves cornice. Chamfered quoins. Symmetrical three-storey, five-bay frontage, sashes in flush frames; glazing bars except to ground floor windows. Central semi-circular headed door opening, plain door under arched fanlight. Triangular pediment on console brackets.

Interior: contemporary staircase and pilastered door architraves.

Abraham Darby II lived here, but probably begun by Abraham Darby I and not finished until after his death.

Listing NGR: SJ6667504961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17565193

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)