Rookery Farmhouse

Rookery Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with later small additions and some 20th-century alterations. It features a timber frame with brick and plastered nogging, and the additions are in washed brick. The roof is covered with plastic tiles, and there is one gable and one central ridge brick chimney. The building has a lobby-entry plan with a crosswing and a two-storey, four-bay front. The framing consists of two levels of tall rectangular panels with angle braces above and passing braces below. The right end bay projects as a gabled wing with two small inserted windows. The truss includes a tiebeam, studs, collar, and two diagonal struts above. There is a lean-to porch adjacent to the main entrance, which has a 20th-century door, while the remainder of the windows are two and three-light casements, with one in a flat-roofed dormer. At the rear, the crosswing displays small framing and a slightly jettied tiebeam with a dentilated lower edge, and a similar treatment is seen on the sill of a now partly blocked original window. There are brick lean-tos on the side and rear. Inside, the entry features an ashlar sandstone baffle. The hall to the left has a moulded stone heck post and a bead-moulded wooden bressumer. A similar moulding is found on the ceiling beam, which is supported by a chamfered and stopped post. There is a similar beam and post in the parlour, along with two four-board doors that have iron strap hinges.