Description

SO 74 NW

1/118 Rook Row Farmhouse

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GV II

Farmhouse, formerly 2 cottages. Probably late C17. Timber-framed, irregular
brick and wattle and daub infill panels, weatherboarded to right, shingle
roof, 2 local type external chimneys to rear wall. One storey and attic,
eaves raised; 4 bays, irregular fenestration to ground floor: small
single pane C20 in left hand bay, one 3-light casement in second and another
in third bay from left; attic has 3 regularly spaced raking-top half-dormers
on line of former wall-plate, each with 2-pane casements one to each of the
3 right hand bays; C20 entrance doors under plank weatherings in second and
fourth bays from left. Tension braces to left hand gable from cill to conrner
posts and another in front wall from cill to post demarcating first and
second bays. Roughly 2 panels from cill to former wall-plate, raised eaves
in plain plastered band. Interior: in attic first truss from left has
cambered collar with chamfered door head beneath, second truss has arch-braces
to collar with raking struts above; ledged C17 door from third to fourth bays
from left; decorated strap hinges to door into principal ground floor right
hand room.

Listing NGR: SO7263945514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26473608

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)