Rooks Nest Farmhouse

Rooks Nest Farmhouse, now a house, dates from the 18th and early 19th centuries and is located north of Pewsham. It is constructed of incised stucco over brick and some limestone rubble, with a pantiled roof featuring moulded and rendered ridge stacks to the left of centre and right gable end. C20 roof-lights are set into the north slope. An English-bond brick lean-to extends from the northwest corner.

The house has a four-room plan, with the central east room serving as an entrance stairhall. A circa early 19th century lower rear right dairy wing was also added.

The two-storey north facade has two horizontal, formerly unglazed openings at eaves level to the left, two 6/6-pane sash windows to the first floor, and 19th-century paired 4/4-pane sash windows to the ground floor to the left of a flush 6-panel door with a hood on brackets. A two-storey lean-to on the far right has a staircase rising from the front to a planked door near the corner, with an opening to each floor facing forward. The west gable end has a decorative bargeboard, a 19th-century two-light casement window to the attic, and a 19th-century 4/4-pane sash window to the first floor. The south facade, originally the rear of the house, features a centrally located front door, formerly the back door and consisting of six flush panels under a shallow hood on brackets, close to the angle of the dairy wing (now kitchen). It has two 2-light casement windows with small panes to the first floor, two similar windows with two panes to the ground floor, flanking a C20 glazed lean-to and C20 French windows. The circa early 19th century dairy wing to the right has similar windows, a single-storey gabled extension with C20 windows, and a rebuilt gable-end stack. The east gable end has a 19th-century lean-to with an extended roof forming a partly-covered courtyard.

The interior is largely of early 19th-century character, with some fireplaces opened up exposing timber lintels, including a white marble chimneypiece in the west room. The room to the right has a slate flagged floor and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The ridge-in-notch 7-bay roof has tenoned purlins and some wide elm floorboards.