Description

EYE

TM17SW YAXLEY ROAD
585-1/3/151 (South side (off))
15/06/51 Rook Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
IPSWICH ROAD
Rook Hall)

II

Farmhouse. Mid C16, and later alterations. North-south range
with early C17 east-west range added at south end. Rendered,
plastered and colourwashed timber frame on brick plinth.
Plaintiles to north wing, mixed red and black-glazed pantiles
to south block.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. North wing is 4-window range. Early C20
half-glazed door to right. 3-and 4-light late C20 casements.
Gabled roof with rebuilt ridge stack left of centre. North
gable-end lit through 3-and 4-light late C20 casements. South
front entered through late C20 half-glazed door to left.
Fenestration of late C20 casements: 2-light left of door, two
double 2-light casements right and a single 2-light casement
to extreme right. One 2-light and one 3-light first-floor
casements. Gabled roof. Ridge stack right of centre.
INTERIOR: south block with dairy at west end under low
ceiling. Centre with chamfered bridging beams and C17
fireplace under plain bressumer. C17 brick in east and west
walls of cellar. North range with early C19 stick-baluster
staircase. North room with two bridging beams: one of mid C16
with roll and hollow mouldings and run-out stops; other early
C17 with sunk-quadrant mouldings. Fireplace with cambered
bressumer also with roll and hollow mouldings, and a
brattished timber cornice. Frame of moderate scantling with
splayed principal posts and tie beams on solid braces. Tension
bracing to corners. Remains of shutter slides to former
mullioned windows. Both roofs with C17 principal rafters and
butt purlins, that to the north wing replacing C16 roof of
which queen-post mortices remain to tie beams.

Listing NGR: TM1323372766

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26389051

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey