The Rookery, With Attached Coach House

The Rookery is a mid-to-late 19th-century vicarage, now a private dwelling, located in Lathom. It was originally built as a parsonage for Lathom Park Chapel of St John. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with blue brick patterning, sandstone dressings, and a green slate roof featuring fishscale bands. It has an L-shaped plan, comprised of a square, double-pile main range with a service wing to the rear, linked by 20th-century additions to a contemporary coach house. The architectural style is Gothic, reminiscent of Street or Webb.

The east-facing front features approximately three bays and is vigorously asymmetrical. The central bay has a single-story porch with a shouldered stone doorway, a Tudor-arched three-light overlight, checker-work bands at impost level, and a steeply-pitched half-hipped roof with plain bargeboards and a branched cast-iron finial. Above the porch is a turret-like half-dormer with a cross-window and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with a matching finial. To the left of the porch, an extruded chimney stack features slight offsets of tumbled brick and a vertical panel with a stone shield at the top, with rebuilt flues above. To the right is a steeply-gabled bay containing a mullion-and-transom six-light window at ground floor with a brick relieving arch, a tall cross-window at the first floor with arched patterning above, plain barge boarding, and a finial similar to those on the other gables.

The south-facing front, which looks onto the garden, has two bays under unequal gables, with a stone canted bay window on the ground floor to the left, and six-light windows similar to that on the front. The west side has an added conservatory.

The coach house, located at the rear and recently altered, is rectangular, two stories high with three windows. It was originally symmetrical, featuring a central doorway, a window above it with a gablet, a coach garage to the right with a chamfered wooden lintel, and a garage to the left which has been altered into a loading box. It also has loading doors over each of these openings and a half-hipped roof with finials.

The building forms a group with Lathom Park CE Primary School approximately 250 meters to the south, with Preston Lodges on the east side of the road, and with The Croppers approximately 150 meters to the north.