Rookery Farmhouse

Rookery Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1500, with significant alterations in the 1840s and 1850s. The original section is a rendered and colour-washed timber-frame building with a plain-tile roof, while the later, forward-facing range is built of red brick with a Welsh slate roof. Brick pilaster strips rise from the plinth on either side of the front door and at the corners, continuing up the front elevation. The front range has a three-window facade with 6/6 sash windows, a central entrance with a part-glazed 5-panel door over a 3-pane overlight, and a 20th-century 3-light casement and door. The rear range comprises a main section and a jettied cross-wing, featuring 2- and 3-light casements and 4/8 sashes.

The interior of the front range contains a stick-baluster open-well staircase. The rear range has heavy bridging beams and joists in the kitchen, with a massive arched brace. Jowled and braced wall posts are visible on the first floor. The wing displays close studding on both floors, with a cranked tie beam on the first floor where earlier arched braces have been removed. A door of likely early 17th-century square panelling also exists. The earlier range showcases a crown-post roof to the wing, with curved braces stemming from the crown posts to the crown plate, and a clasped purlin roof in the main range which includes curved windbraces and coupled rafters.