The Rookey And Attached Walls

The Rookery is an early 19th-century house with alterations and additions from the mid-19th century and 20th century. It is constructed of rendered material, with hipped slate roofs, deep eaves supported by wooden brackets, and ashlar stacks. The walls are of sandstone rubble.

The house is two storeys high and originally had two windows. The ground floor features sash windows on each side of a 20th-century flat-roofed, glazed porch with pilasters, a 6-panelled door in a moulded frame, and a French window to the right. The first floor originally had two 16-pane sash windows with external shutters.

Attached to the right is a rubble wall approximately 4 metres high and extending roughly 9 metres, which ramps down to a pointed arched doorway containing ammonites set into the rubble. The right return side has three canted bays extending through two storeys, each with a French window to the front with margin glazing, a 12-pane casement to each side, and two bays to the right featuring an overlight with margin glazing. The first floor of this return features a central 16-pane sash, with an 8-pane sash to either side, apart from the central bay which has a 20-pane front sash. A wrought iron conservatory extends along the whole of the ground floor.

A rear wing, set back to the right, includes a single-storey addition in rubble with a coped edge, featuring a 4-light window and a pointed arched door to the rear. The first floor of this wing includes an 8-pane sash and a sash window, and a canted bay with a 16-pane sash to the front and 8-pane sashes to each side.

The left return side is notable for a tall round-headed stair light with 12 panes in the lower section and splayed glazing bars above. The rear wing slightly set back has two round-headed windows of varying sizes with splayed glazing bars on the ground floor and similar round-headed sashes on the first floor. A later 19th-century service wing is attached to the left, exhibiting two 4-pane sashes at ground floor, two 2-light casements under the eaves with external shutters, and a small clock tower above with a pitched roof and a large clock. The left return of this wing features a 2-light and a 3-light casement at ground floor, a door with an overlight, two 2-light and one 3-light casement under eaves, and a door to a lean-to.

Attached to the rear is a single-storey addition with a hipped roof, dating from around 1930, and featuring a 12-light mullion and transom window with leaded lights. The rear elevation has two doors, a 2-light casement, and a 10-pane light to the rear of the service wing, along with a sandstone rubble, single-storey addition to the rear of the right return, which is not rendered. The interior is not accessible.