Description

FINNINGHAM WALSHAM ROAD (NORTH EAST SIDE)
TM 07 SE 2/19
Rookery Farm House

GV II

Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, stack and floor inserted and extended mid to late C16, part raised in C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Originally a small 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay, stack inserted and parlour added at upper end to right. Early bays raised to 2 storeys, 2 storeys and attic to parlour. Entrance in original cross passage position in hall lower bay, a C19 half glazed
architraved door in a C20 open gabled porch. C20 casements. Axial ridge stack with cap rebuilt to right, lean-to roof extends over stairs in front of stack projecting as far as parlour addition which has a higher ridge. Right end shaped bracket to rear wall plate. To rear a single plane to both builds, cross passage entrance blocked, behind service bay an early external stack, rendered base, C18 cap; extending beyond a clay lump and pantiled lean-to outbuilding with 3 boarded doors, behind parlour a C20 addition. Interior: cross passage survives, frame largely concealed, hall has inserted bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and stop chamfered mid-rails, original wall plates, later roof with a cambered tie beam. Parlour has double roll moulded binding beams with good bar and leaf stops, similar joists, side girts and fireplace bressumer, traces of close studding, arched braces to cambered tie beams, roof with chamfered arched braces to cranked collars, butt purlins with cranked windbraces.

Listing NGR: TM0575770642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26475806

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)