Rookery Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Rookery Farm House

WRENN ID
spare-stair-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rookery Farm House, Thurning, NR24 2JP
OS grid reference
TG 078 307
Coordinates
52.83456, 1.08438
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rookery Farm House is a farmhouse dating from around 1700. It is constructed of red brick with a black glazed pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and features a double pile design, along with a single storey red pantiled wing to the west. The house consists of two sections, with the earlier part located to the west, showing an off-centre straight joint on both the north and south sides.

The south front has two 3-light casements on the ground floor, and on the first floor, there are two 3-light casements and one 2-light casement, all featuring glazing bars. There are also two gabled attic dormers. A 19th-century brick porch is present, which has Gothick headed switch tracery casements on the east and west sides. The entrance includes part glazed double doors with margin lights, and there are two blocked windows on the east side.

The house features a brick dentil cornice, with off-centre and west end stacks that likely indicate the original extent of the house. The west gable has kneelers and a brick parapet. The eastern section has shaped gables with arched Gothick profiles, and mid-19th century casement windows on each floor. The west wing contains one 3-light casement and a wooden moulded doorcase with a four-centred arch, which is presumably reused. Inside, both sections have chamfered and stopped beams.

Local climate

Rookery Farm House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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