Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1966. Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-solder-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Clopton Road, Monewden, IP13 7DF
- OS grid reference
- TM 226 572
- Coordinates
- 52.1687, 1.25497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1593, built for the Stebbings family. It is timber framed with colourwashed render and a 20th-century pantile roof, which was originally thatched. The building has two storeys.
On the entrance front, there is an entrance doorway located to the left of centre, featuring a half-glazed 19th-century door. To the left of the door is a 2-light casement window, and to the right are two 3-light casements. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements to the left and a 3-light casement to the right. A stack with sawtoothed flues is positioned at the ridge, right of centre, above a rectangular base that displays the date and the initials I.S. and M.S. on an octagonal stone.
At the rear, there is a projecting wing on the right side, with a projecting catslide outshut to the right. To the left of this outshut, there is a ground floor doorway and two 2-light casements on the first floor. The right-hand gable end features a 3-light ground floor 20th-century casement and a 2-light window on the first floor.
Inside, the farmhouse has closely-spaced studding in the walls, cambered ceiling beams, and blocked windows with moulded mullions.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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