The Rookery

The Rookery is a house, likely dating from the early 19th century, and subsequently altered. It is constructed with pebble-dashed render on brick, with cement dressings, sandstone ashlar for the porch, and a hipped slate roof. The house has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a shallow back extension. It is built in the Tudor Gothic style.

The two-storey, three-window front is nearly symmetrical and incorporates a plinth, rusticated quoins, a first-floor sillband, a string-course, and a parapet. A gabled porch, likely added in the late 19th century, is offset to the right of centre. This porch has a Tudor-arched outer doorway flanked by narrow windows and a high parapet with heavy kneelers and an apex upstand. The inner doorway has fluted pilasters, a frieze, and a door with two arched glazed panels. The windows are square, three-light casements with arched lights, quoined surrounds, and hoodmoulds. Two chimney stacks feature tall clustered octagonal chimneys. A large, full-height two-storey canted bay is on the right-hand return wall, while the left return has a 20th-century bow window at ground floor. The fenestration of the side and rear elevations is similar to the front.