Listed Building: ROOKERY FARMHOUSE (280544)

HAUGHLEY BACTON ROAD TM 06 SW 4/62 Rookery Farmhouse -- II Farmhouse, c.1600. 2 storeys. 3-cell lobby entrance plan. Timber-framed and plastered. Roman pantiled roof, once thatched. An axial chimney of red/buff bricks, the shaft rebuilt in C19. C19 casements of 3 lights, those at ground storey with transomes. Early C19 entrance porch; 6 panelled door, the upper panels glazed. Fluted architrave with paterae; slated roof with undulating bargeboards and spike finial; lattice piers flanking entrance. A long rear service wing: the 1 1/2 storey rear range is probably of C17 with wind-braced clasped purlin roof. The higher central section may be an C18 link to the main house, but has a good 1st floor structure of c.1600. Unmoulded framing exposed internally. Listing NGR: TM0324964586