Rookery Farmhouse
ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, GIPPING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352279
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, GIPPING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352279
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY FARMHOUSE, GIPPING 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, GIPPING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gipping
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08520 62702
Details
GIPPING GIPPING ROAD, STOWUPLAND TM 06 SE
5/48 Rookery Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse, c.1530 with alterations of early C17 and early C19. 2 storeys and attics. 3-cell cross-entry plan. Timber-framed and plastered; the ground storey walling and the left hand gable are rebuilt in C19 red brick. Concrete tiled roof, once thatched. An axial chimney of C16 or early C17 orange and buff brick; a C19 gable chimney of red brick to left. Mid C20 2-light casements at 1st storey; two C18 3-light casements with transomes at ground storey, one replaced in late C20. Boarded C20 entrance doors. A high quality building of c.1530. The hall has ogee-and-scotia moulded joists and a massive binding beam with deep multiple mouldings. A fine but incomplete C16 plank- and-muntin cross-passage screen has been moved slightly to right in late C18 and a good cupboard with fluted pilasters and carved shelves incorporated. An original wide hall fireplace has a cambered lintel and sunk panels of red brickwork over. One of a pair of service room doorways has a 4-centred arched head, the other is restored. Heavy unchamfered joists in the service cell to left. The 1st floor layout is unusual: a large 2-bay chamber over the service cell extends partly over the hall, with a good archbraced cambered and chamfered tiebeam. Very closely spaced studding. An original lintelled fireplace to the parlour, but the parlour cell was rebuilt in C17: reused medieval floor joists, and a heavily moulded bridging beam of C15 or early C16. The chamber above has C18 stencilled wall decoration in black vertical lines; abstract patterns of intertwined foliage. Clasped-purlin roof of early C17 with reduced principal rafters.
Listing NGR: TM0852062702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280530
- 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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