ROOKLEY HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303305
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: ROOKLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ROOKLEY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303305
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: ROOKLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOKLEY HOUSE

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:: ROOKLEY HOUSE

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Kings Somborne
National Grid Reference:: SU 39547 32753

Details

KINGS SOMBORNE

SU 33 SE UP SOMBORNE

4/1 Rookley House (formerly listed as Rookley Manor) 5.12.1955

GV II*

House. Early C18, with late C18 re-fronting. Rendered and brick walls, tile roof. A plain 2 storeyed house, with a Gothick elevation applied to the south- east front in the late C18. The entrance front (south-east) has in the centre a taller angular bay, to produce 2.3.2 windows. The walls have been rendered (with masonry marks), with a crenellated parapet above a stone cornice, comprising a moulding above pointed arcading, plain 1st floor band, pointed arches to the openings, stone cills, and a stone plinth. Sashes in reveals, with interlacing pointed glazing bars in the upper part. The stone door frame has a reeded architrave, pointed at the top, with moulded impost caps and plain base and a ½-glazed Gothick door. 2 small circular windows (of C20) break the symmetry. The south-west (original) elevation in plain and symmetrical, of 5 windows, with coping to parapet and stone moulded cornice, plinth, sashes in reveals. The hipped-roof to the 2 fronts returns at the north-east as a hip and gable, the upper walls being tile-hung and the lower masked by outshots: 2 sash and 3 casement windows. The rear elevation is red brickwork in English bond, with a large arched staircase window. C20 2 storeyed addition at the north corner links to a C18 range, being a 2 storeyed cottage, extending as a single-storeyed stable block: tile roof, red brick walling in Flemish bond, with casements (some old leaded lights). Within, there are 2 rooms lined with C18 panelling, a fine C18 staircase in oak, and the entrance hall has marble paving and a fine decorated plaster ceiling.

Listing NGR: SU3954732760

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Legacy System number:: 145580
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.