Rookery Farmhouse

Rookery Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a part medieval core that was raised and extended around 1600. It underwent renovation around 1972. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with a pantiled roof, and has two storeys in a single long range. There are four windows featuring mid-20th century standard casements without glazing bars. The entrance is a lobby with a flat-roofed porch from the mid to late 19th century and a glazed door from the mid-20th century. A similar door is located to the left. Inside, there is an internal stack with a mid to late 19th-century panelled white brick shaft. The older core, located to the left, serves as the service end, with walls raised over one metre, likely when the hall and parlour cells were added. One ground floor service room contains a re-used bridging beam and heavy plain joists. The hall features an axial bridging beam with two ovolo moulds and ornate leaf stops with an enriched bar, as well as an ovolo bridging beam in the hall chamber. The first floor has plain studding from both construction phases and some internal doors dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. The roof has not been examined.