Description

SP 81 SE 5/19

ASTON CLINTON
LONDON ROAD (south side)

Rookery House
(Formerly listed as Rookery Park House)

25.10.51

GV

II

Small country house, C18 with C17 north wing. Red brick with some blue
bricks, hipped tiled roof, rendered parapet, moulded brick modillion
cornice. 2 storeys with attic, over basement. South front has 3 bays
of widely spaced sash windows in reveals with gauged brick flat arches.
Central bay projects under triangular pediment containing circular recessed
panel. Door and flanking windows within semicircular arched shallow
recess. Gibbs door surround and dentil pediment in painted wood
imitating masonry. Six stone steps in front. Return elevations 1 bay
of sash windows C19 1-storey west wing, parapet and cornice, 2 sash
windows to S. central sash door and flanking panels to N. N. wing.
2 storeys, brick, slate roof, 3 upper sashes with thick glazing bars
of early C18 pattern. Further N., C17 timber framed wing brick infill,
tiled roof with one old chimney on W. side, small wooden cupola on ridge.
Casement windows, door in angle with main house having pedimented
hood. N. front of main house has tiled lean-to on ground floor, upper
window with gothic pattern glazing. Interior chamfered beams and
open fireplace in C17 wing, original C18 staircase, fireplaces to main
house.
RCHM I p. 21. MON. 6.

Listing NGR: SP8771011980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453998

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (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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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)