Rookery Farmhouse
ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, WALSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180543
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, WALSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180543
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, WALSHAM ROAD
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:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, WALSHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finningham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0575770642
Details
FINNINGHAM WALSHAM ROAD (NORTH EAST SIDE)
TM 07 SE 2/19
Rookery Farm House
GV II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, stack and floor inserted and extended mid to late C16, part raised in C17, altered C20. Timber frame, plastered. Steeply pitched machine tiled roofs. Originally a small 2 bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay, stack inserted and parlour added at upper end to right. Early bays raised to 2 storeys, 2 storeys and attic to parlour. Entrance in original cross passage position in hall lower bay, a C19 half glazed
architraved door in a C20 open gabled porch. C20 casements. Axial ridge stack with cap rebuilt to right, lean-to roof extends over stairs in front of stack projecting as far as parlour addition which has a higher ridge. Right end shaped bracket to rear wall plate. To rear a single plane to both builds, cross passage entrance blocked, behind service bay an early external stack, rendered base, C18 cap; extending beyond a clay lump and pantiled lean-to outbuilding with 3 boarded doors, behind parlour a C20 addition. Interior: cross passage survives, frame largely concealed, hall has inserted bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam and stop chamfered mid-rails, original wall plates, later roof with a cambered tie beam. Parlour has double roll moulded binding beams with good bar and leaf stops, similar joists, side girts and fireplace bressumer, traces of close studding, arched braces to cambered tie beams, roof with chamfered arched braces to cranked collars, butt purlins with cranked windbraces.
Listing NGR: TM0575770642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279475
- 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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