Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 6 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-timber-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, 57, Frog End, Great Wilbraham, CB21 5JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 545 572
- Coordinates
- 52.19145, 0.25943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a 17th-century house with a front that was remodelled in the late 19th century. The house is timber framed and has been roughcast and plaster rendered, with a front of white brick. It has a cement tiled roof and a ridge stack featuring six diagonally set shafts on a rectangular base. The layout is L-shaped.
The front of the house, dating to the late 19th century, has three recessed sash windows and a 20th-century porch in the centre. The rear range has two storeys. Attached to the rear of the original 17th-century part is a single-storey, 17th-century kitchen range, also timber framed and rendered. The main house has two bays and a cross-passage between them.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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