The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352428
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352428
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, THE STREET
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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 96131 65754
Details
TL 96 NE NORTON THE STREET
2/119 The Rookery (formerly 15.11.54 listed as Rookery Farmhouse and barn)
GV II
Farmhouse; C17 main range with earlier range to right. 2 storeys. Main range of 2-cell lobby-entrance plan. Timber-framed and plastered: a little C18/C19 herringbone pargetting. Plaintiled roof: an C18 parapet gable of red brick, now internal to right. An axial C17 chimney of red brick, and another of C18 at gable, the shaft rebuilt in mid C20. Mid C19 sashes with large panes. Mid C19 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with half-glazed panelled door and panelled reveals. The range to right was formerly of 1½ storeys: in C19 walls were raised and a lower-pitched pantiled roof built. Attached to left along the street frontage is a single-storey C19 range once containing a butcher's shop: flint and painted brick with plastered end walls. Pantiled roof. Mid C19 shop window with cornice. To right of facade is a lean-to C19 extension of painted brick.
Listing NGR: TL9613165754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281222
- 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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