Description

PARISH OF DRONFIELD HIGH STREET SK 37 NE 6/43 (North Side) Rookery Cottage 9.1.67 (formerly listed as the Armoury or Rookery Cottage) GV II House. Mid C17 with C20 alterations. Coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers. Single gable stack, rebuilt C20 and a stone slated roof. East elevation. Two storeys, three bays, with advanced porch to north end, covered by a catslide roof, and inserted doorway beneath a plain lintel and with a C20 door. Second inserted doorway to south end, beneath a plain lintel and with C20 door. To the north of this door, a 2 and a 3-light recessed chamfer mullioned window, both beneath dripmoulds, that to the 3-light window extending onto and around the advanced porch. First floor with two 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, the mullions C20 replacements. C20 leaded lights throughout. South gable has stacked 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, including attic light, beneath dripmoulds. At the south-west corner the remains of a massive quoined doorway, now with only the south-east quoins remaining and half of the lintel. The corner itself is not quoined.

Listing NGR: SK3502178514

External Links

• Wikidata Q26380169

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Recommended Books

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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): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990