Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1987. Farmhouse.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-granite-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Broad Street, Chewton Mendip
- OS grid reference
- ST 584 526
- Coordinates
- 51.27184, -2.59678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 17th century and alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a double Roman tile roof with rubble stacks, one of which has an exposed chimney breast. The building is designed in an L-plan and has two storeys with three bays on one side and one bay on the other. It has 2 and 3-light casement windows. The central door opening, located to the left, contains a half-glazed door and is topped by an 18th-century stone hood supported by ornamental stone brackets. The rear elevations retain some original openings that feature moulded stone mullions.
Local climate
Rookery Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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