Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Rookery Farmhouse

WRENN ID
deep-floor-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rookery Farmhouse, Station Road, Great Dunham, PE32 2LU
OS grid reference
TF 872 142
Coordinates
52.69342, 0.76999
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rookery Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse with later alterations. It is built of reused limestone ashlar, flint, brick, and rendered brick, with a black pantiled roof. The house has a symmetrical facade of three bays, with a central porch supported by a pair of Tuscan columns and a simple entablature. A sash window with glazing bars sits above the porch, protected by a wooden hood mould. A pair of later additions are the canted bays at ground floor, featuring large sash windows and open parapets. Tri-partite sash windows with glazing bars and wooden hood moulds are located above. The house has a tall, rendered parapet and gault brick gable-end stacks. Reused materials include decorative carvings of lozenges, chevrons, sections of shaft, and cushion capitals, likely originating from the destroyed church of St. Mary. The farmhouse is primarily listed for the quality and historical significance of these reused elements.

Local climate

Rookery Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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