Listed Building: ROOKERY FARMHOUSE (280149)

LAXFIELD BADINGHAM ROAD TM 37 SW 5/29 Rookery Farmhouse -- II Farmhouse. C16 and C17, in 2 or more phases. Timber framed; mid C20 panelled plasterwork with a band of pargetting at first floor level. Roof plaintiled to front and pantiled to rear. 2 storeys. 3 windows, C19 and C20 mullion and transom casements. Central doorway with 6-panel door and C19 doorcase with reeded pilasters, frieze and cornice. External stacks against each gable. Interior has considerable C19 and C20 modernisation. To the right, a former C16 service end: on the ground floor a close-studded partition wall (which seems at one time to have been an outside wall) and heavy plain joists. Some exposed first floor framing and one original window with cavetto mullions. Remainder of front range perhaps late C16: moulded bridging beam to ground floor, the structure otherwise largely concealed. C19 stair. Small C17 dairy wing to rear. Set forward to the right of the house a large mid C20 wing, not of special interest. Listing NGR: TM3004771450