The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, POUND LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031946
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, POUND LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031946
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, POUND LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, POUND LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blundeston
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 51555 97194
Details
BLUNDESTON POUND LANE TM 59 NW 2/10 The Rookery (formerly 27.11.54 listed as The Rectory) II House. Indications of C16 core, otherwise C18 with late C19 service range to rear. Red brick, with a hipped roof of glazed black pantiles. 2 storeys. 4 windows, flush-frame sashes with glazing bars under flat brick arches; one C20 5-light casement window under a segmental arch to the left on the ground floor. Asymmetrical doorway with 6-panel entrance door (the upper 4 panels glazed) and rectangular fanlight, both inset with panelled reveals; reeded architrave with corner roundels and a C20 plaintiled hood on wooden brackets. The right hand ground floor room has a floorbeam with double concave moulding and heavy plain joisting, probably early C16; no other work of this date is visible. The house is considered to be the prototype of The Rookery in 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens and is listed for this reason.
Listing NGR: TM5155597194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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