Rookery Cottage

SJ 53 SE 7/78

PREES C.P. LOWER HEATH, School Lane Rookery Cottage

II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill; corrugated iron roof. One storey and attic; apparently of 3 framed bays. Framing: square panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate, to front with V-struts from collar and long straight tension braces to right gable end, partly replaced by brick and painted black and white in imitation; mixture of square and rectangular panels to back wall. Three casements to ground floor; left C19, centre and right C20 with C19 raking eaves dormers directly above those to left and centre. C20 boarded door to left with another boarded door to far left. Red brick ridge stack immediately to left of centre. Interior: full inspection not possible at time of resurvey (February 1986) but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SJ5737432915