Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. A Medieval House. 8 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ruined-chimney-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Rookery Road, High Ongar, CM4 0LG
- OS grid reference
- TL 599 033
- Coordinates
- 51.70639, 0.31396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, is a house dating from the 15th century or earlier, originally a hall house with crosswings, and significantly altered in the 16th century. It is timber framed and has plaster walls, with a red plain tile hipped roof. The house is two storeys high. The original crosswing gables now project outwards. There are four windows across the front, with leaded casements dating from the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The early 19th century features flat, moulded canopies on brackets over the doors. The original wings have gables at the rear. There are 16th-century red brick end wall chimney stacks with diagonal shafts. The site was formerly a moated site.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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