The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, FINNINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182112
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, FINNINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182112
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, FINNINGHAM 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:
- THE ROOKERY, FINNINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walsham-le-Willows
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0056671476
Details
TM 07 SW
3/46
15/11/54
WALSHAM LE WILLOWS
FINNINGHAM ROAD
The Rookery (formerly listed as 'Rookery Farmhouse)
II
Former farmhouse. Circa 1600.and later. Timber-framed and rendered with some
lining, white brick facing to part, plaintiled roofs. 2 storeys, attics to
part; irregular form. 2 internal chimney-stacks, one with 4 barrel shafts
moulded at cap and base on a long narrow base decorated with 2 courses of
diaper-patterned tiles (cf. Green Farmhouse, Item 3/41, and Crownland Hall,
Item 3/43). Part of the south front has a mid-C19 white brick face: a central
gable, with a raised course of bricks along its slopes, a spike finial with
ball, and corbels, is set slightly forward of 2 flanking crenellated sections.
The gable has paired 12-pane sash windows within heavy mock-stone surrounds to
ground and first floors and a single 12-pane sash in the apex; the crenellated
sides each have a 4-panelled door and fanlight with radiating glazing-bars in
a semi-circular-headed, surround and a 12-pane sash window above. The
remainder of the south front has 9-pane sashes to each floor. Along the west
side, old 3-light casement windows to the upper floor, and a small 1½ storey
projecting C17 wing: fluted bargeboards and spike finial to gable, projecting
tie-beam with Jacobean carving, a 2-light casement window with a single bar to
each floor. The oldest part of the complex is the 4-bay 3-cell range with
internal chimney-stack, aligned north-south: to the south of the stack the
ground floor room behind the brick gable has an ovolo-moulded main beam with
lamb's tongue stops; to the north of the stack the main beams are plain and
worn. Close-studding with some C18 brick infill; Tudor brick on the north
side of the stack; joists on edge on the upper floor; roof, in 7 bays
unrelated to wall bays, with 2 rows of unstepped butt purlins and very large
principal rafters. The east-west range is not all of one date, and much
structure is concealed. The 4 eastern bays have exposed walling on the ground
floor, with indications that the ceilings were raised in the C18. Roof with
one row of unstepped butt purlins, one row of clasped purlins, and the remains
of windbraces.
Listing NGR: TM0056671476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281791
- 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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