Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Service building.
Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-minaret-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- Service building
- Address
- Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse, Church Road, Westhorpe
- OS grid reference
- TM 043 691
- Coordinates
- 52.28276, 0.99512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The service building located immediately northwest of Rookery Farmhouse dates from the late 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some red brick infill, and has a pantiled roof. The structure is a long range of 5 to 7 bays and stands two storeys tall. It has a double offset plinth and faces the farmhouse, with three doors and three-light ovolo mullioned louvred windows—three on the ground floor and four on the first floor. An axial ridge stack is positioned towards the house, and the roof is hipped towards the road. At the rear, there are three stable doors, coach doors, and similar windows. Inside, some early timber has been reused in the frame, which includes a mid-rail. The kitchen fireplace features a massive moulded stone bressumer, which is believed to have been taken from Westhorpe Hall following its demolition around 1760. There are stairs in front of the stack, and a first-floor fireplace with a moulded mantlepiece.
Local climate
Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
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