Farm Buildings Enclosing 3 Sides of Yard Opposite Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. Farm buildings.
Farm Buildings Enclosing 3 Sides of Yard Opposite Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muted-lime-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Farm Buildings Enclosing 3 Sides of Yard Opposite Rookery Farmhouse, Bridge Road, Stoke Bruerne
- OS grid reference
- SP 745 500
- Coordinates
- 52.14374, -0.91227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of farm buildings, including a barn, granary, stabling, and shelter sheds, built around 1840. The buildings are constructed from coursed squared limestone and red brick, topped with hipped slate roofs, forming a U shape. They are one and two storeys high. The single-storey shelter shed facing the farmhouse is open to the yard, featuring a brick segmental-arched arcade. The barn on the right side has a pair of double-leaf opposed doors with wooden lintels and segmental-arched heads. The two-storey granary at the outer end of the left return range has doors and windows with ironstone jambs and lintels, complete with keyblocks, while the side facing the road has no openings. A former cart-standing at the rear is now blocked. These buildings face Rookery Farmhouse across Bridge Road. Rookery Farm was originally part of the Grafton Estate, and this model farmyard closely resembles those built between 1839 and 1844 for the 4th Duke of Grafton as part of a larger agricultural improvement initiative.
Local climate
Farm Buildings Enclosing 3 Sides of Yard Opposite Rookery Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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