Rookery Farmhouse
ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, BACTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181016
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, BACTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181016
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, BACTON 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, BACTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Haughley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0325064585
Details
TM 06 SW
4/62
HAUGHLEY
BACTON ROAD
Rookery Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, c.1600. 2 storeys. 3-cell lobby entrance plan. Timber-framed and
plastered. Roman pantiled roof, once thatched. An axial chimney of red/buff
bricks, the shaft rebuilt in C19. C19 casements of 3 lights, those at ground
storey with transomes. Early C19 entrance porch; 6 panelled door, the upper
panels glazed. Fluted architrave with paterae; slated roof with undulating
bargeboards and spike finial; lattice piers flanking entrance. A long rear
service wing: the 1 1/2 storey rear range is probably of C17 with wind-braced
clasped purlin roof. The higher central section may be an C18 link to the
main house, but has a good 1st floor structure of c.1600. Unmoulded framing
exposed internally.
Listing NGR: TM0325064585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280544
- 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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