Elton House Rookery Nook The Rookery

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/l20 The Rookery, Elton House and 08/12/55 Rookery Nook (Formerly listed as The Rookery)

GV II Substantial house. 1656 on datestone, restored and extended C19/early C20. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. L-plan with complex extensions. 2 storeys plus attic. Main range has a symmetrical 5-gabled front, the middle bay projecting as a porch entered by a Tudor-arched doorway with recessed spandrels and a label, and sheltering a plainer Tudor-arched doorway; the large 3- and 4-light stone-mullioned windows with transoms at ground and first floors are restorations, but the 2-light mullioned gable windows are at least partly C17. The main part of the rear wing, returning on the right, has two 3-light stone-mullioned windows at ground and first floors, and has 2-light mullioned windows in the main gable and in a stone gable to right of it; all, like the front windows, have lattice glazing and labels; but they are probably C17. The gables all have parapets with projecting moulded kneelers, and the porch gable bears a stone finial and contains the datestone. A chamfered plinth containing mullioned cellar windows continues to a lower 7-window section of the rear wing which has, at ground floor, ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights, probably lowered but partly C17, but at first floor has C19 mullioned windows in contemporary half-dormer gables; a single-storey range beyond it (Rookery Nook), also with the same plinth, is probably also partly C17 but has three 2-light C19 mullioned windows plus plain openings to rear. Complex extensions to left of main range (Elton House) are in similar stone-mullioned and gabled style, but are irregular and have flat-roofed front projections with stone-balustraded parapets; the range is mostly early-C20, but it incorporates a Cl7 range of which some ovolo-moulded mullioned windows at the rear may form part. The rear of The Rookery appears to retain little original work and is largely masked by early c20 extensions. Interior: The Rookery has some stop-chamfered beams, a Tudor-arched chamfered stone fireplace (probably re-set) and 2 fragmentary drawings on plaster. Elton House has a similar fireplace plus a fine moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with recessed spandrels (both probably re-used). Alterations of 1912 are by A.C. Martin of London. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p418; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p10; Country Life 1949, Vol 105, p33)

Listing NGR: SP4731035580