The Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Custom house/library. 5 related planning applications.
The Rookery
- WRENN ID
- odd-cupola-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Custom house/library
- Address
- The Rookery, Seymer Road, Swanage, BH19 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 033 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60745, -1.9539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rookery, built around 1830 by William Morton Pitt, originally served as a Custom House and Library. This two-storey building features a basement, with rendered walls and a low-pitched slate roof. The main façade facing Seymer Road includes four windows on the first floor and three windows along with an entrance door on the ground floor. The windows at the north end on both floors are blocked. The windows are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The entrance doorway is adorned with a classical pedimented hood, reeded pilasters, and a fanlight. There are later conservatories added to the north and east sides of the building.
Local climate
The Rookery receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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