Listed Building record MDO43365 - The Rookery, Fantley Lane, Lower Silton

A house thought to have been built in the late eighteenth century. The building has walls of rubble and a tiled roof with stone slate verges and brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include cornices with egg-and-dart moulding and an 18th-century chimney piece. The house is reputed to contain murals by William Blake, painted over by a later occupant.

ST 78703038. The Rookery is a two storeyed house with rubble walls, which appears to be of the 18th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 78703038) The Rookery (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 79 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(5) THE ROOKERY (78703038), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and tiled roofs, appears to be of the 18th century. In the three-bay S. front the ground-floor openings are modern; the upper storey has original casement windows of three lights with two-centred heads under square labels with returned stops. Inside, the plan is of class T. The W. room has a cornice with cable and egg-and-dart mouldings; the room has been enlarged westwards in a modern addition. The E. ground-floor room has a late 18th-century chimneypiece with carton-pierre enrichment.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202632 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 7 2022 4:55PM