The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, FEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182556
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, FEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182556
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, FEN 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, FEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earl Stonham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10262 58787
Details
EARL STONHAM FEN LANE TM 15 NW 5/94 The Rookery(formerly listed - as Rookery Farmhouse) 9-12-55 - II
Farmhouse, early C16 with alterations of c.1600. A 3-cell Wealden open-hall house. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered; both end cells are jettied at the front, with the recessed open hall between. Concrete tiled roof (formerly plaintiled), with an early C17 axial chimney of buff brick and an attached second flue of late C17/C18 in red brick. C20 casements. 6-panelled early C19 entrance door at cross-entry position. The 2-bay open hall has a crownpost roof: the open truss has a cambered arch-braced tie-beam; one of the pilaster shafts with ornate carving survives beneath an archbrace, and the central crownpost has an octagonal shaft with moulded capital and base and 4- way braces (one missing). The lateral braces are not fixed to the collar and are purely decorative. Good arch wind-braced close-studding. Light smoke staining in the hall roof; evidence for a ridge louvre. Circa 1600, an upper floor was inserted into the hall, with chamfered joists. A large open fireplace in the hall has pink/gault brickwork and backs onto the cross- passage; it may predate the inserted floor. A service wing was added to rear of the parlour cell c.1600, with large axial chimney and plain framing with butt-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TM1026258787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279343
- 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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