Rookery Farmhouse

Rookery Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, located on Stoney Road, Grundisburgh. The house is timber-framed with colourwashed render and a plain tile roof. It has an H-shaped roof plan. The front features a gabled wing that is flush with the main range. This wing contains a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a two-light casement window on the first floor. To the left of this, the main range has a lean-to porch with a two-light window, followed by a three-light 20th-century casement window and a two-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions at ground floor level. The first floor above incorporates two two-light casements and a single-light casement, all of 20th-century date. To the left is a projecting gabled wing with a gambrel roof, originally a single-storeyed building with an attic, which was later integrated as a cottage and extended to join the original range. This wing has a lean-to with a pantile roof on its ground floor and two 20th-century single-light casements on the first floor. A 20th-century outshut is located at the left-hand end, while the right-hand side features a porch with a hipped roof and a half-glazed door. A three-light 20th-century casement window is above the porch. A lean-to with a plank door is situated slightly to the right. The rear of the house has a projecting outshut on the left with a cross window and a three-light window on the main axial range, both of 20th-century date. A doorway is present on the left side of the axial range and there are also three two-light casement windows of 20th-century date on the first floor. To the right is a brick 20th-century outshut with a hipped roof, and two two-light windows at the end of the gambrel roof.

The interior of the older portion follows a three-cell baffle-entry plan and includes a winder staircase rising from the lobby to the attic. Close studding and wall posts are visible on both floors, along with chamfered ceiling beams and sill and wall plates. The staircase hall reveals the projecting brick plinths of the gable end of the main axial range and of the lower range with a gambrel roof, which shows weathering on the timbers, indicating they were previously external walls.