Description

TM 38 SE
3/34

ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET
GRUB LANE (OFF)
Rookery Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys; basic 2-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-
framed and roughcast; clay pantiles. An internal chimney-stack with a plain
rebuilt red brick shaft. C20 3-light casement windows and a C20 plank door
set at the right end. Projecting forward from the left end is a single storey
brick extension with clay pantiles and a C19 3-light mullion-and-transome type
gable window with segmental arch to frame and opening. Interior of the main
house with plain framing exposed: 5 bays. On the ground floor: a blocked 4-
light original window, the mullions with hollow-chamfer moulding, and a
similar blocked 3-light window on the upper floor. Beams and joists to
ground-floor ceiling with plain chamfer and stepped stops; upper ceiling
original. Long jowled main posts without braces. Wallplate with face-halved
and bladed scarf joint. Roof not examined.

Listing NGR: TM3729582854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283380

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)