The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, 441, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187918
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, 441, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187918
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, 441, MAIN ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, 441, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 24194 31199
Details
HARWICH
TM2431 MAIN ROAD, Dovercourt 609-1/6/165 (South East side) No.441 The Rookery
II
House, former farmhouse. Early C19 with earlier origins. Rendered brick with gabled and end parapeted clay plain tile roof. Parallel rear range with Welsh slate roof and single-storey rear lean-to with clay pantile roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellar. Front has 3 hipped dormers with C19 two-light casements. Gable end stacks and course of canted headers under eaves. First floor has 3 flush double-hung sash windows with small panes, the centre one narrower. Ground floor has 2 similar windows and central early C19 doorcase with fluted pilaster/architraves with roundels at intersections and flat hood over. Recessed door with flush panelled recess flanks and 4 glazed panels over 4 flush panels. INTERIOR: 2 exposed bridging joists, one with lamb's tongue stopped chamfers and one with conventional stops. In rear range a late C18 door with raised-and-fielded panels and moulded architrave and one old vertical board door. Front room to NE has C19 fire surround with hybrid free-standing columns and double mantel shelf. C18 wrought-iron casement window in SW gable. Cellar has late C16 bridging joists and many wall chamfered joists.
Listing NGR: TM2419431199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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