The Rookery is a former country house in the village of

Tattenhall Tattenhall is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tattenhall and District, south-east of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In the 2001 censu ...

, Cheshire, England. The house was originally owned by the Orton family. It was reconstructed in 1909 for F. W. Wignall of the

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company. It has since been used as a nursing home. The house is

timber-framed Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large woode ...

on a stone

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. It is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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Country houses in Cheshire Houses completed in 1909 Timber framed buildings in Cheshire Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire Grade II listed houses {{UK-listed-building-stub

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