Rookery Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries, it has an L-shaped layout with two-and-a-half storeys to the main range and two storeys to the wing. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with white brick to the south gable, red brick to the north gable, and colour-washed brick to the wing, all topped with 20th-century plain tiles. A substantial internal chimney stack rises from a large, plain shaft of Tudor brick. The main range has three irregularly spaced, two-light casement windows with small panes in flush frames on each storey, and a four-panelled door with a small gabled porch roof. A rear wall door, dated 1778, abuts the chimney stack, along with a small porch above. To the left of the stack, a two-bay room has been partitioned off, perhaps when the doorway was added; it contains chamfered main cross-beams with run-out stops. To the other side of the stack, a single-bay room also has a similarly treated main beam. A single open fireplace retains its original timber lintel. The wing is now used as a service area, but a two-bay room at the east end dates to the late 16th century and likely predates the front range.