Rookery Farmhouse Including Outbuildings to West is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. Farmhouse.

Rookery Farmhouse Including Outbuildings to West

WRENN ID
noble-floor-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1958
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rookery Farmhouse Including Outbuildings to West, Attleborough Road, Little Ellingham
OS grid reference
TM 008 991
Coordinates
52.55298, 0.96182
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rookery Farmhouse, dating from the early 18th century, is a brick farmhouse with a pantile roof, situated on a brick plinth. It has two storeys and a dormer attic. The central door is set under a segmental arch beneath a fireplate. To the right, there are two early 19th-century sash windows, and one to the left, all featuring glazing bars and segmental skewback arches. On the first floor, there are three casement windows, with the one on the left being original, and a blocked window above the door. The gabled roof includes two flat dormers with early 18th-century casements. Internal gable stacks are present. To the left, there is an early 19th-century cross wing that has two sash windows and a dentil eaves cornice beneath a hipped roof with a stack. The north gable displays brick tumbling and a string course at the eaves line, while the south gable is similar. There is a late 19th-century outshut at the rear under a catslide roof and a mid-20th-century extension to the south. An outbuilding located to the west is also constructed of brick with a pantile roof and is connected to the farmhouse, featuring a south gable with tumbling and an internal stack.

Local climate

Rookery Farmhouse Including Outbuildings to West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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