Rookyard Farmhouse

Rookyard Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in two stages, located on Old Newton Stowmarket Road. The left side features an early 16th-century service range, while the main range to the right dates from around 1550 and has a three-cell cross-entry plan. The building is timber framed and plastered, with hipped roofs covered in plain tiles. It has two axial 17th-century chimneys made of red brick, with sawtooth shafts; the left chimney has a moulded course at the plinth and may be a later addition.

The farmhouse mainly has early 19th-century small-pane windows, including three-light casements on the first storey and tripartite sashes below. At the cross-entry position, there is an early 19th-century doorway featuring slender fluted pilasters and a cornice with paterae, along with an early 20th-century panelled door and another door in the left-hand range. The main range showcases high-quality mid-16th-century framing with double-ogee moulded beams and joists. It includes one of a pair of service room doorways with four-centred arches and concealed carved spandrels, as well as a wind-braced clasped purlin roof. The lower range is slightly older, with an altered end-jetty on the south gable at the first floor level and unmoulded framing. The roof of this range was rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century.