Rook Row Farmhouse

Rook Row Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was formerly two cottages, likely built in the late 17th century. The structure is timber-framed with irregular brick and wattle and daub infill panels, and it is weatherboarded on the right side. The roof is covered with shingles, and there are two local type external chimneys on the rear wall. The building has one storey and an attic, with raised eaves and four bays. The ground floor features irregular window placements: a small single-pane window from the 20th century in the left bay, a three-light casement window in the second bay, and another three-light casement in the third bay from the left. The attic includes three regularly spaced raking-top half-dormers aligned with the former wall-plate, each fitted with two-pane casements in the three right-hand bays. There are 20th-century entrance doors beneath plank weatherings in the second and fourth bays from the left. The left-hand gable has tension braces from the cill to the corner posts, and there is another brace in the front wall from the cill to the post that separates the first and second bays. The walls have roughly two panels from the cill to the former wall-plate, with raised eaves featuring a plain plastered band. Inside, the attic's first truss from the left has a cambered collar with a chamfered door head beneath it, while the second truss has arch-braces to the collar with raking struts above. There is a ledged 17th-century door leading from the third to the fourth bays from the left, and the door into the principal ground floor room on the right has decorated strap hinges.