Description

TG 03 SE THURNING

4/100 Rookery Farm House.

30/11/51 II

Farmhouse c.1700. Red brick, black glazed pantiled. 2 storey with attics,
double pile house with single storey red pantiled wing to west. House of
2 builds, the earlier to the west with off-centre straight joint to north and
south piles. South front with 2 3-light ground floor casements, first floor
2 3-light and one 2-light casements, all with glazing bars. 2 gabled attic
dormers. C19 brick porch with Gothick headed switch tracery casements to
east and west. Part glazed 2 leaf doors with margin lights. 2 blocked windows
at east. Brick dentil cornice, off-centre and west end stacks perhaps marking
original extent of house, west gable with kneelers and brick parapet. To
east both piles with shaped gables with arched Gothick profiles, with mid C19
casement windows to each floor. West wing with one 3-light casement, and
wooden moulded doorcase with 4 centred arch presumably re-used here. Interior
with chamfered and stopped beams to both piles.

Listing NGR: TG0785930792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445973

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)