Rookery Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. House.
Rookery Cottages
- WRENN ID
- standing-sentry-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rookery Cottages, 1 and 2, All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham
- OS grid reference
- TM 324 834
- Coordinates
- 52.39938, 1.41517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Cottages is a house that has been divided into two cottages, dating from the late 16th century. It is two storeys high with attics and has a three-cell layout. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with black glazed pantiles. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. The cottages feature various old two-light and three-light casement windows, some of which have small panes and pintle hinges. The door to No. 2 is a plank door, likely located in the original cross entry position. Most of the timberwork is covered, except for the main beams on both floors and the wall plates. The upper ceilings are original. The roof is well-constructed, featuring full principals that have been cut away to accommodate clasped purlins, along with arched windbraces, some of which have been removed.
Local climate
Rookery Cottages 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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