Rookery Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1988. Farmhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Rookery Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-moat-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rookery Farmhouse, Limekiln Lane, Leigh-On-Mendip, BA11 3RD
- OS grid reference
- ST 702 471
- Coordinates
- 51.22313, -2.42798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered. It is built of rubblestone with ashlar dressings and features a 20th-century machine-tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has five first-floor windows across four bays, with an added wing at the rear right. The corners of the building are marked by quoins. The entrance, located to the right in the second bay, has a quoined surround and features a 20th-century part-glazed four-panel door, along with a 20th-century gabled stone and glass porch, which is not of special interest.
The farmhouse has ovolo-moulded mullion windows throughout. On the ground floor, there are four-light windows under hoodmoulds flanking the door, a three-light window to the left, and a replacement early 20th-century sash window with brick jambs and a wood lintel to the right. On the first floor, there are two-light windows above the door and otherwise three-light windows. The building has raised verges with stepped coping and stone stacks at the ends and on the ridge between the third and fourth bays, with the two left-hand stacks heightened in brick.
At the rear, the main range features a board door with a wood lintel aligned with the front door, a two-light window with a hoodmould to its left, and a small later wood-framed window above it to the right, along with another window at the far right. There are two board doors leading into the wing and a 20th-century addition in the angle of the wing and house, which is not of special interest. The left return has a two-light window on each floor to the right. The right return includes a 20th-century added lean-to that is not of special interest, an inserted first-floor window on the right, and the wing has two two-light wood-lintelled windows on the ground floor, one above, and an end stack.
The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have boxed cross-beams in the room of bay four and a large stone inglenook fireplace with a deeply-chamfered cross-beam in the room of bay three. At the time of inspection, the farmhouse was abandoned and in a state of disrepair.
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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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