Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- second-pewter-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Marsh Road, Shabbington, HP18 9HF
- OS grid reference
- SP 664 070
- Coordinates
- 51.75851, -1.0381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is an early 18th-century brick farmhouse with a half-hipped roof covered in old tiles. It retains timber-framed cross walls and trusses within. The building consists of three bays and a first floor, with a projecting rear wing extending from the right-hand bay. The north front features an off-centre entrance door. The ground floor has casement windows; two windows are located in the centre bay, with a sash window in the left bay. The right-hand bay incorporates a reused oak-framed, six-light ovolo mullioned and framed window with leaded lights, dating from around 1600. A stack with a moulded cap is situated between the left-hand bays, and there are three gabled eaves dormers. The right-hand flank shows a three-light upper casement above a four-light ground floor window. The brickwork exhibits a chequer pattern, and most window openings have segmental heads. Internally, the farmhouse has chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, old board doors, splat balusters to the staircase, and purlin braces to the roof.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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