Rookery Farmhouse
ROOKERY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198346
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2003-10-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/10546/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198346
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret, South Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 32386 83467
Details
SOUTH ELMHAM, ST. MARGARET ST. MARGARET'S GREEN TM 38 SW
4/74 Rookery Farmhouse 1.9.53 - II*
Farmhouse. Late C15 core, with C16 and C17 additions. 2 storeys and attics; L-shaped form. Timber-framed and rendered; black glazed pantiles. An internal chimney-stack to each range, one with square shafts rebuilt in the C18, on older moulded bases. The main front (facing west) has 3-light casement windows with transomes, some old, with square leaded panes, and 2 C20 replacements on the ground floor. The upper windows are not all on the same level, and the front range not all of one date. Entrance door with 6 flush panels, the top 2 glazed, panelled pilasters, and triangular pediment with dentils. On the upper floor of the south side 2 high C18 3-light diamond- mullioned windows with transomes and pintle hinges. A 2-bay C15 open hall, formerly with queen-post roof, is encased in the east-west range: the smoke- blackened cambered tie-beam and heavy arched braces of the open truss remain, with mortices in the tie-beam for queen-posts, but the walls were raised, probably in the C18, and to the east of the hall there is a C19 extension or replacement in brick, colour-washed externally. The C16 ceiling inserted into the hall has a main beam with 6" chamfer and leaf-stops. A late C16 chimney- stack and parlour were added to the west of the hall: plain ceiling, with stepped stops to timbers, open fireplace with plain timber lintel. In the room above the parlour, a fireplace with a fine bolection-moulded surround. A C17 extension on the north side of the parlour resulted in the present 3-cell north-south range, which has, extending on its north side, a gabled 2-storey stair wing, with the wallplates projecting at eaves' level supported by ornate Jacobean brackets, while the ground floor has a complete 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window. The fine stair with turned balusters within this wing, although of the same date, appears to have come from another building, as it blocks the original window and was intended for a different alignment.
Listing NGR: TM3238683467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282334
- 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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