The Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. A Early Modern Farmhouse.
The Rookery
- WRENN ID
- other-casement-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- The Rookery, Belchamp Walter
- OS grid reference
- TL 842 419
- Coordinates
- 52.04552, 0.68566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rookery is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and a steep clay pantile roof, which has Suffolk verge boards. The building has an off-centre original ridge line stack and a mix of 19th and 20th-century casement windows. It is two storeys high and has lean-tos at the rear, along with a lower wing that extends at a right angle from the northwest end, which includes a tall flank wall stack.
Local climate
The Rookery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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