The Rooks

The Rooks is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has one storey and attics, featuring a hall and a two-cell cross-wing. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with the north elevation facing Old Ipswich Road encased in red brick during the 19th century. The house has a thatched roof with a central axial chimney made of red brick from the 17th century, and an external chimney at the cross-wing gable added in the late 18th or 19th century. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is a boarded entrance door from the 20th century. Inside, the timber-framing is plain but largely intact, with some earlier timber reused. The cross-wing has blocked diamond-mullioned windows and a wind-braced clasped-purlin roof. The hall is structurally separate and may be a later addition, featuring a large open fireplace.