Rookery Farmhouse

Rookery Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with a stack and floor inserted and extended in the mid to late 16th century, part raised in the 17th century, and altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with plastering and steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay. A stack was inserted, and a parlour was added at the upper end to the right. The early bays were raised to two storeys, with the parlour having two storeys and an attic. The entrance is located in the original cross passage position in the hall's lower bay, featuring a 19th-century half-glazed architraved door within a 20th-century open gabled porch. The windows are 20th-century casements.

There is an axial ridge stack with a rebuilt cap to the right, and a lean-to roof extends over the stairs in front of the stack, projecting as far as the parlour addition, which has a higher ridge. The right end has a shaped bracket to the rear wall plate. At the rear, there is a single plane to both builds, and the cross passage entrance is blocked. Behind the service bay is an early external stack with a rendered base and an 18th-century cap, extending beyond a clay lump and pantiled lean-to outbuilding with three boarded doors, and a 20th-century addition behind the parlour.

Inside, the cross passage survives, although the frame is largely concealed. The hall features an inserted bar stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and stop-chamfered mid-rails, with original wall plates and a later roof that includes a cambered tie beam. The parlour has double roll-moulded binding beams with good bar and leaf stops, similar joists, side girts, and a fireplace bressumer, along with traces of close studding, arched braces to the cambered tie beams, and a roof with chamfered arched braces to cranked collars and butt purlins with cranked windbraces.