Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- inner-portal-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, School Road, Great Ashfield, IP31 3HW
- OS grid reference
- TM 005 671
- Coordinates
- 52.26552, 0.93788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a lower range to the left that may be even older. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The left range is a single storey with attics and consists of two cells. It is constructed with timber framing and plaster, topped with a fish-scale tiled main roof. An axial chimney from the early 17th century made of red brick has a sawtooth shaft. The windows are 19th-century three-light casements. At the lobby-entrance, there is a 20th-century gabled porch with a battened and boarded door. The roof is plaintiled and includes two casement dormers, along with an axial chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century, which was rebuilt in the 19th or 20th century. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 application
- 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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