Rock House

Rock House stands at the centre of old Greasby at the junction of Mill Lane and Greasby Road. It was built at an unknown date as a timber-framed structure. The c1849 Greasby tithe map & apportionment documents show the building as part of tithe plot 165 which was described as consisting of a cottage, smithy and garden. Plot 165’s smithy stood where Greenwood Terrace now stands. The tithe descriptions were not very descriptive – for example the Coach & Horses was described as house, buildings and garden.

Tithe plot 165 was described in the 1869 Inclosure Award as “A messuage or public house, smithy and garden with their appurtenances”

The cottage, now called Rock House, was very likely the premises of the Horse Shoe beerhouse.

At an unknown date major alterations were made to the building - roof removed, walls raised, gables reshaped, etc.

In the 1950s an outbuilding was used as a milk depot. Supplies arrived from Saughall Massie and Wally Smith, son Trevor and Joe Batho organised local deliveries.