Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- veiled-hearth-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Gedding Road, Drinkstone, IP30 9SZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 960 608
- Coordinates
- 52.21104, 0.86775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, likely dating from the early 17th century, with substantial remodelling in 1868. It originally had a three-room cross-entry plan, with a parlour incorporated into a cross-wing. In 1868, the parlour wing was renovated and became the main facade, facing west. The house is timber-framed and now largely encased in gault brick to the front, with plaintiled roofs. A well-crafted early 17th-century red-brick chimney sits at the junction of the two main sections of the house, featuring a sawtooth design and a moulded base. Two other chimneys, matching this style, were added in the 19th century. The front of the house has three windows, which are casements with prominent mullions and transoms. An entrance porch of gault brick, two storeys high with an attic, features a multi-panelled door. Above the attic window is a stone lintel carved with the inscription "F.N. 1868".
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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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