ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE

ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE, ROTHBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041856
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE, ROTHBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041856
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE, ROTHBURY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROOKWOOD HOUSE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE, ROTHBURY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Longframlington
National Grid Reference:: NU1284300888

Details

NU 10 SW 5/164 21.10.5-3

LONGFRAMLINGTON ROTHBURY ROAD (North side) Longframlington Village Rookwood House and adjacent cottage (formerly listed as Rookwood House)

GV II

W House dated 1717 with initials T M (Thomas and Mary Wardle) on door surround; cottage probably later C18. Front of house squared stone of near-ashlar quality, other elevations and cottage squared stone; Welsh slate roofs. House T-plan.

Front elevation: House 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated quoins, sill bands. Central renewed door in lugged architrave under plain frieze with re-cut inscription and pedimented hood on consoles. Renewed 12-pane sash windows in architraves. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; stepped-and- corniced end stacks with paired shafts. Returns each show 4-pane iron-barred casement. Lower cottage to right 2 storeys, 2 bays; renewed door on far left, plain sash windows. Coped right gable on moulded kneeler; right end stack as on house.

Rear elevation: House rear wing shows arched stair window, with glazing renewed, on right return, and old ridge stack. Cottage shows single-storey gabled rear wing.

Interior not seen.

C20 extensions to rear and east of house wing, and to east of cottage wing, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU1284300888

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Legacy System number:: 236833
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.