Rookery Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. A Post-medieval House.
Rookery Cottages
- WRENN ID
- gentle-gable-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Rookery Cottages, 1 and 2, School Road: Wheelers Lane, Great Ashfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 005 670
- Coordinates
- 52.26465, 0.93752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Cottages is a house dating from around 1550 to 1570, with alterations made in the early to mid-20th century. The building has two storeys and features a three-cell, cross-entry plan. It is timber-framed but is completely encased in early to mid-20th century common brick. The roof is covered with Roman pantiles and was once thatched.
The house has a central chimney made of narrow red bricks, with the upper part plastered. There are various small-pane casement windows from the 20th century and panelled entrance doors, with the door on the left positioned at the cross-entry. The original 16th-century framing is heavy and intact, featuring broad studs with arch windbraces and blocked diamond mullioned windows. The first-floor joists are chamfered, and the roof structure is a queenpost design. Inside, there are back-to-back lintelled open fireplaces in both the hall and parlour.
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 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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