The Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. Inn.
The Rookery
- WRENN ID
- upper-bonework-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Rookery, Brewery Hill, Bitton
- OS grid reference
- ST 691 698
- Coordinates
- 51.42687, -2.44563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rookery is a mid-17th century former wayside inn located on Bitton Road in Upton Cheyney. This building is one and a half storeys tall and constructed from lias rubble with a pantile roof. On the north side, there are three windows on the ground floor, which include two 2-light wooden casements and a central ogee moulded stone mullion 2-light casement with a plain drip. Above this, there is a gable featuring a 2-light oak mullion window. The entrance door is positioned to the left of center, and there is a blocked stair light to the right of the door. The south side has a central 3-light stone mullion window with a flat drip, a gabled dormer to the left, and a bread oven projection to the right of center. Additionally, there is a small gable end light to the east with a chamfered lintel. Inside, the building features a newel stair with a blocked window, a cross passage behind the chimney, and two chamfered door frames in the attic, one of which has a cambered head.
Local climate
The Rookery receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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