Listed Building: ROOKERY FARMHOUSE (285458)

GRUNDISBURGH STONEY ROAD TM 25 SW (East side) 2/92 Rookery Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17. Timber framed with colourwashed render and a plain tile roof. Two storeys. H-shaped roof plan. Drive front: gabled wing which is flush with the axial range. This has a 3-light casement window to ground floor and a 2-light casement to the first floor. To left of this the axial range has, at far left a lean-to porch with a 2-light window. To right of this at ground floor level is a 3-light C20 casement window and at right a 2-light window, with ovolo-moulded mullions. To the first floor above this are two 2-light casements and one single-light casement, all of C20. To left is a projecting gabled wing with a gambrel roof, single-storeyed with attic, which may be a later separate cottage added to the earlier range which was extended to join with it, accross the portion now occupied by the staircase hall and masked externally by the porch in the re-entrant angle. This wing has a lean-to with a pantile roof to the ground floor and two C20 single-light casements to the first floor. The left hand end has a C20 outshut with pantile roof. The right hand side has a porch with hipped roof to the ground floor and 1/2-glazed door. Three-light casement to the first floor of C20 date. Slightly to right of this is a lean-to with a plank door at left. The rear has the projecting outshut at left with a cross window and, to the axial range, a 3-light window at right, a doorway at left and at first floor level three 2-light casement windows of C20 date. To right is a brick C20 outshut with hipped roof and there are two 2-light windows to the end of the gambrel roof. Interior: Three-cell baffle-entry plan to the older portion with winder staircase rising from the lobby and continuing to the attic. Close studding and wall posts to both floors with chamfered ceiling beams and sill and wall plates. The present staircase hall shows the projecting brick plinths of the gable end of the axial range and of the lower range with gambrel roof, and shows weathering to the timbers as if formerly external walls. Listing NGR: TM2063552826