Description

HARWICH

TM2431 MAIN ROAD, Dovercourt
609-1/6/165 (South East side)
No.441
The Rookery

II

House, former farmhouse. Early C19 with earlier origins.
Rendered brick with gabled and end parapeted clay plain tile
roof. Parallel rear range with Welsh slate roof and
single-storey rear lean-to with clay pantile roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellar. Front has 3 hipped
dormers with C19 two-light casements. Gable end stacks and
course of canted headers under eaves. First floor has 3 flush
double-hung sash windows with small panes, the centre one
narrower. Ground floor has 2 similar windows and central early
C19 doorcase with fluted pilaster/architraves with roundels at
intersections and flat hood over. Recessed door with flush
panelled recess flanks and 4 glazed panels over 4 flush
panels.
INTERIOR: 2 exposed bridging joists, one with lamb's tongue
stopped chamfers and one with conventional stops. In rear
range a late C18 door with raised-and-fielded panels and
moulded architrave and one old vertical board door. Front room
to NE has C19 fire surround with hybrid free-standing columns
and double mantel shelf. C18 wrought-iron casement window in
SW gable. Cellar has late C16 bridging joists and many wall
chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: TM2419431199

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26483088

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]