Rooks Nest Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. A C17 Farmhouse. 7 related planning applications.

Rooks Nest Farmhouse

WRENN ID
idle-lancet-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Rooks Nest Farmhouse, Bath Road, Colerne, SN14 8EQ
OS grid reference
ST 816 709
Coordinates
51.43696, -2.26526
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rooks Nest Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse with 19th-century additions, constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs. It features coped gables and end wall stacks, along with a central ridge stack. The south front has three coped dormer gables, each containing a three-light recessed mullion window; the central window has an ovolo-moulded frame, while the outer pair are chamfered. The windows are small-paned and have sash opening lights. The ground floor has 19th-century twelve-pane sashes in plain surrounds, one with a hoodmould to the left, and one on each side of a four-panel door. The door is set within a 19th-century ashlar gabled porch with a cyma-moulded doorcase. To the right side is an ovolo-moulded single light window with a hoodmould. A rear lean-to provides access to a three-light, ovolo-moulded window above. At the east end is a two-storey 19th-century addition with an end stack, and a further two-storey range at the rear of the west end with a north end stack. This rear addition incorporates older walling.

Local climate

Rooks Nest Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
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