Rookery House

TA 20 NW LACEBY GRIMSBY ROAD (north side)

2/41 Rookery House (formerly listed as The Rookery) 4.1.67 II - House. Mid-late C18, perhaps with earlier origins to rear wing. Brick with slate roof to front, pantiles to rear. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance front to south with C20 single-room addition to left, 2-room wing to rear right with outshut in angle. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical, with single-storey single-bay addition. Chamfered stucco plinth. Doorcase with engaged Doric columns carrying plain entablature and cornice, round-headed opening with fluted architrave, key and impost blocks; half glazed 6- panelled door beneath fluted cornice and Gothick fanlight in panelled reveal. Slightly recessed 12-pane sashes in wooden surrounds with stucco flat arches and projecting stone cills. First floor windows with louvred wooden shutters. Moulded stucco cornice with stone-coped parapet. Brick- coped gables; end stacks. Right return forms secondary front of 4 bays: stucco plinth, half-glazed door to 3rd bay with 2-pane overlight in architrave beneath stucco cambered arch; 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves under similar arches; windows to first bay are C20 insertions. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Brick-coped gable. Axial stack. Interior. Open well closed-string staircase with moulded handrail, column balusters and plain newels. Moulded dado rail to entrance and stairhalls. Panelled window shutters and 4-fielded-panel doors in architraves. Cupboards to first floor front bedrooms with fielded-panel doors and H-hinges. Good moulded ceiling beam to back kitchen. Barrel-vaulted brick cellar to rear wing.

Listing NGR: TA2171906635