The Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Elderly home.
The Rookery
- WRENN ID
- hushed-clay-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Elderly home
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 45 NE TATTENHALL C.P. GATESHEATH LANE (West Side)
5/101 The Rookery.
GV II
Formerly large house, now old peoples' home: dated 1909 on rainheads for Frederick Wignall of Tate and Lyle. Timber-framed on a stone plinth with rusticated brick lower storeys to the rear. Stone-slate roof stone ridge and a massive ashlar lateral stack with Tudor-style brick stacks. Elizabethan style south front has large 2-storey gable. Coved jetties at 1st and 2nd floor. Chevron decoration below, roundels above and cross-motifs in gable with ornate pierced bargeboards. 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows. Similar gable on west front and 2-storey porch on east front; extensive service range to north. Interior: Hall has oak stair with shaped flat balusters and square newels. Main room to left in ornate Elizabethan style with inglenook fireplace, panelled plastered ceiling and frieze. Dining room has Baroque ceiling with Tate and Lyle Liver Birds and an ornate early C18-style fireplace. Replaces and may include small portions of an Elizabethan original; a meticulous evocation of Cheshire vernacular.
Listing NGR: SJ4853158762
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