The Rookery is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. House.
The Rookery
- WRENN ID
- frozen-threshold-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rookery, Howe
- OS grid reference
- SE 357 803
- Coordinates
- 54.21794, -1.45375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rookery is a house dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed from ashlar and rubblestone, featuring a roof made of machine tiles, plain tiles, and Welsh slate. The building has two storeys and consists of three bays, with a two-storey, two-bay wing set back to the right.
The main house has a plinth and a central four-panel door that is accessed by two steps, topped with a stone lintel. All the windows are 16-pane sashes, each with stone sills and stone lintels. The roof includes shaped kneelers, stone coping, and end stacks.
The right wing also has a plinth and quoins on the right side. It features two steps leading to a 20th-century glazed door with a cement flat arch above the left-hand bay, which has a narrow 8-pane sash above it. The right-hand bay contains 16-pane sashes, and all windows in this wing have cement flat arches and stone sills. The roof is finished with stone coping and an end stack on the right side. There is a one-storey wing to the right that is not of special interest.
Local climate
The Rookery receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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