The Rookery

SY 4889 BURTON BRADSTOCK CHURCH STREET

8/85 The Rookery 7-8-52 GV II

Detached House in grounds. Mid C17 and early C20 additions at both ends and at rear. Rubble-stone walls, with a stone parapet and gable-copings. 2 rubble-stone buttresses with ashlar set-offs. Slate roofs, 4 rendered stacks at left hand gable, two on ridge, widely spaced, and at right hand gable. 2 storeys. 5 windows, mainly 3-light ovolo stone mullions with separate labels. Metal casements with single lights in each. Left hand (North) end bay is an early C20 gabled addition, in the original style, with 5- light mullions to ground and first floors. Front doorway, approximately at centre of the range, stone jambs with a depressed arch in a square head. Separate label over. Plank door, with strap hinges and 2 glass lights, c.C19. Rear range, at right angles, C20, with a valley roof, similar fenestration. Doorway into adjoining porch with pointed segmental head, a straight chamfer and large impost-blocks. C20 2-leaf door. White stone tablet over this, with an illegible inscription. RCHM Dorset I, p 59 (2).

Listing NGR: SY4894389557