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

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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

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair