Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Timber-frame house. 1 related planning application.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-ember-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Timber-frame house
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Plantation Road, Aslacton, NR15 2ER
- OS grid reference
- TM 156 898
- Coordinates
- 52.46399, 1.17317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-frame house that was re-faced in late 19th-century red brick. It has a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and a brick chimney stack located off-centre. The house is two storeys high, with an attic space visible in the gable ends, and features three widely spaced windows with 19th-century sash windows. A 19th-century gabled porch is situated in front of the chimney stack.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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