Rookery Farmhouse

SP 72 NE GRANBOROUGH HOGSHAW ROAD

2/45 Rookery Farmhouse

• II

House. Late C16-C17. Timber frame with diagonal braces and whitewashed brick infill to end bays and rear. Whitewashed rubble stone plinth. Front of centre bay rebuilt with whitewashed rubble stone to ground floor and brick above. Half-hipped old tile roof, 2 brick chimneys off-centre to right. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars, that to upper left C20. Lower right-hand windows have segmental heads, one with rendered voussoir. Flush panelled door between right-hand bays with Sun fire insurance plaque above. Rear has C20 casements and C18 2-storey extension of brick with tiled roof forming L-plan. Further C19 bay, now part garage attached to gable of extension. Interior: centre room on ground floor has moulded and stopped spine beam and section of painted frieze with floral motifs and shield with date of 1628. Spiral staircase. Upper left-hand rooms probably once open to roof. Ground floor has one original oak window with moulded jambs and central mullion and 2 diamond mullions.

RCHM II p. 120 Mon. 15

Listing NGR: SP7651025268