Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1986. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-outpost-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Grub Lane, St. Margaret, Ilketshall, IP19 0RP
- OS grid reference
- TM 372 828
- Coordinates
- 52.39226, 1.48617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with a basic two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The house is timber-framed and roughcast, with a clay pantile roof. It features an internal chimney-stack with a plain, rebuilt red brick shaft. Modern 3-light casement windows and a 20th-century plank door are located at the right end. A single-storey brick extension projects from the left end, featuring a 19th-century 3-light mullion-and-transome window with a segmental arch to its frame and opening.
The interior of the main house has exposed timber framing across 5 bays. On the ground floor, there is a blocked 4-light original window with hollow-chamfered mullions, and a similar blocked 3-light window on the upper floor. The ground-floor ceiling has original beams and joists with a plain chamfer and stepped stops, while the upper ceiling is original. The main posts are long and jowled, without braces. A wallplate features a face-halved and bladed scarf joint. The roof has not been examined.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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