Rookery House

Rookery House is a house dating to the late 15th century, with substantial remodelling in the 16th century and further alterations and extensions in the 19th century. It is constructed of stuccoed brick and rendered timber framing, with two parallel ranges featuring gabled slate roofs. The building is two storeys high.

The late 19th-century front range features gable end stacks and a single-storey, hipped-roof extension on its north end, also with a slate roof. The front elevation has three double-hung sash windows with a central vertical glazing bar on the first floor. A slate lean-to covers two canted bays on the ground floor, and a central entrance door. Similar sash windows are in the canted bays. A 20th-century greenhouse is located on the south gable end.

The rear range, thought to date to the late 15th century, has an off-centre chimney stack and bargeboards to the north, with cusped soffits. It is partly asymmetrical, with a catslide lean-to extension linking it to the later house. The south gable has two square-paned casements on the first floor, and a 12-pane double-hung sash and hooded door on the ground floor. The west elevation has two six-pane double-hung sash windows with moulded architraves on the first floor, and a lower-set, four-pane window, two doors, and later casements on the ground floor. The north elevation has a pointed arched casement window in the gable with small panes. Below this is a 16-pane double-hung sash and a 20th-century single-light window, with a further 12-pane double-hung sash and a small 20th-century casement on the ground floor. A small, lean-to roofed block links the front range.

The original house was a small, late 15th-century timber-framed structure, originally with an open hall of two unequal bays. The eaves line has been raised to accommodate a lower-pitch slate roof, leaving the original smoke-blackened crown post roof largely intact beneath. The roof has simple longitudinal braces and was formerly hipped over the service end to the south. A floored parlour/solar is located at the north end, displaying interrupted tie beam construction and evidence of original bench fixings below. The service end was originally open to the roof and has a 16th-century inserted floor with a moulded bridging joint and minor joists, some of which have been halved and redistributed. An early 17th-century inserted floor was added to the former hall, with a stack likely contemporary. Some original windows and doors on the east external wall now lead into a passage between the two buildings. The front of the house contains a contemporary staircase with turned balusters.