Rooksmoor House

Rooksmoor House is a large house, originally with an attached weaving house, now divided into two dwellings. The main fabric dates to the mid-16th century, with additions from the early 17th century, the late 17th century, and the early 18th century. The construction is of random and coursed rubble limestone, with rebuilt rendered brick chimneys and a stone slate roof. The building now forms a roughly T-shaped plan through various additions.

The east side of the house, facing Rooksmoor Hill, has four gables, the two oldest being on the right. The rightmost gable, from the mid-16th century, has a parapet with a cross roll saddle coping. It features a recessed chamfered casement window with two lights on the ground floor, a hood mould above, and a doorway to the left with a rendered lintel and a four-panel door. Above are two- and three-light casements under a combined hood mould. There is a two-light window in the attic, set within the gable apex. The early 17th-century gable to the left has a recessed cavetto mullioned casement of three lights on both the ground and upper floors; a two-light casement above this, and a single light in the gable apex. A later 18th-century addition has two gables, each with a rendered chimney and stair casements of two lights between them. A ridge-mounted chimney between these sections has a double pulvinated frieze below a moulded cap.

The north end possesses a parapet gable with a rebuilt chimney. The west side has a parapet gable to the right of the oldest part of the house, containing a recessed cavetto mullioned casement window of three lights on the ground floor, a two-light window above, and a single attic light, all with hood moulds. A small round arched recess is situated above the attic casement. A 17th-century addition in the angle with the west wing has round arched sash windows on each face, supported on a brick pier.

The late 17th-century wing has cross-window fenestration, with a continuous dripmould above ground-floor windows and a combined hoodmould over the upper-floor windows. Central gables are present to the north and south, the southern gable having a three-light casement. A doorway, with bolection-moulded architraves and a dripmould rising over two fixed lights above, sits at the junction between the wing and the main range, leading to an original plank door. Two gables continue the main range to the south; the left gable has cross windows like those of the wing, while the right has three-window, two-light chamfered mullioned casements. There are two two-light casements under a combined hood to the attic, with a two-light window above. A 20th-century porch addition is located centrally.

The interior includes a fine panelled room in the west wing, featuring a bolection-moulded stone fireplace, bolection-moulded door architraves surmounted by a broken pediment containing a small urn. Earlier features are present in the north part of the house. C19 linenfold panelling is found in a room in the south part of the house, as well as Gothick pierced truss beams with decorated spandrels. The building was likely the mill house of Rooksmoor Mill.