The Rookery

The Rookery is a house that was originally a farmhouse, built in the early 19th century but with earlier origins. It features rendered brickwork and a gabled roof with end parapets, covered in clay plain tiles. There is a parallel rear range topped with a Welsh slate roof and a single-storey lean-to at the back with a clay pantile roof.

The building is two storeys high, with attics and a cellar. The front facade includes three hipped dormers with 19th-century two-light casement windows. There are gable end stacks and a course of canted headers beneath the eaves. On the first floor, there are three flush double-hung sash windows with small panes, the center window being narrower. The ground floor has two similar windows and a central early 19th-century doorcase featuring fluted pilasters and architraves with roundels at the intersections, topped with a flat hood. The recessed door has flush panelled recess flanks and four glazed panels above four flush panels.

Inside, there are two exposed bridging joists, one with lamb's tongue stop-chamfers and the other with conventional stops. In the rear range, there is a late 18th-century door with raised-and-fielded panels and a moulded architrave, along with an old vertical board door. The front room to the northeast contains a 19th-century fire surround with hybrid free-standing columns and a double mantel shelf. A late 18th-century wrought-iron casement window is located in the southwest gable, and the cellar features late 16th-century bridging joists and several wall chamfered joists.