Rookery House

Rookery House is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, possibly with earlier origins in the rear wing. It is constructed of brick with a slate roof at the front and pantiles at the rear. The building has an L-shaped plan, featuring a central entrance front with two rooms to the south and a 20th-century single-room addition to the left. There is also a two-room wing at the rear right with an outshut in the angle.

The house is two storeys tall and has three bays, arranged symmetrically, with a single-storey addition. It has a chamfered stucco plinth and a doorcase with engaged Doric columns that support a plain entablature and cornice. The entrance features a round-headed opening with a fluted architrave, key, and impost blocks, along with a half-glazed six-panelled door beneath a fluted cornice and a Gothick fanlight in a panelled reveal. The windows are slightly recessed 12-pane sashes in wooden surrounds, topped with stucco flat arches and projecting stone cills. The first-floor windows have louvred wooden shutters. The house has a moulded stucco cornice and a stone-coped parapet, with brick-coped gables and end stacks.

The right return of the house forms a secondary front with four bays, featuring a stucco plinth and a half-glazed door in the third bay with a two-pane overlight in an architrave beneath a stucco cambered arch. The 12-pane sashes are in flush wooden architraves under similar arches, although the windows in the first bay are 20th-century insertions. There is a dentilled brick eaves cornice and a brick-coped gable with an axial stack.

Inside, there is an open well closed-string staircase with a moulded handrail, column balusters, and plain newels. The entrance and stair halls have a moulded dado rail, and there are panelled window shutters and four-fielded-panel doors in architraves. The first-floor front bedrooms feature cupboards with fielded-panel doors and H-hinges. A good moulded ceiling beam is present in the back kitchen, and there is a barrel-vaulted brick cellar in the rear wing.