Rook Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1989. Cottage.
Rook Farm House
- WRENN ID
- pale-rood-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rook Farm House, Helmingham Road, Otley
- OS grid reference
- TM 202 557
- Coordinates
- 52.15631, 1.21889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rook Farm House is a cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a 19th-century brick skin added to the north and south sides. The building is a single storey with an attic and has small 20th-century extensions to the south and east. The steep pantile roof features capping pieces on the bargeboards. The cottage has a three-window range with two-light casements that include a central transom and brick arches. There are pentice boards above the gable window. The chimney stack, which is from the early 17th century, has had its top external section rebuilt in the 19th century. The cottage consists of three bays divided into three cells, with the cells on either side of the stack featuring stop-chamfered spine beams and bressumers, as well as large joists. Some stud work is visible in the ground and first-floor gable end walls.
Local climate
Rook Farm House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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