The Rookery

HARWICH

TM2431 MAIN ROAD, Dovercourt 609-1/6/165 (South East side) No.441 The Rookery

II

House, former farmhouse. Early C19 with earlier origins. Rendered brick with gabled and end parapeted clay plain tile roof. Parallel rear range with Welsh slate roof and single-storey rear lean-to with clay pantile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellar. Front has 3 hipped dormers with C19 two-light casements. Gable end stacks and course of canted headers under eaves. First floor has 3 flush double-hung sash windows with small panes, the centre one narrower. Ground floor has 2 similar windows and central early C19 doorcase with fluted pilaster/architraves with roundels at intersections and flat hood over. Recessed door with flush panelled recess flanks and 4 glazed panels over 4 flush panels. INTERIOR: 2 exposed bridging joists, one with lamb's tongue stopped chamfers and one with conventional stops. In rear range a late C18 door with raised-and-fielded panels and moulded architrave and one old vertical board door. Front room to NE has C19 fire surround with hybrid free-standing columns and double mantel shelf. C18 wrought-iron casement window in SW gable. Cellar has late C16 bridging joists and many wall chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: TM2419431199