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Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Westhorpe, Suffolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2827 / 52°16'57"N

Longitude: 0.9951 / 0°59'42"E

OS Eastings: 604396

OS Northings: 269180

OS Grid: TM043691

Mapcode National: GBR SHG.SGN

Mapcode Global: VHKD3.6WFF

Plus Code: 9F427XMW+32

Entry Name: Service Building Immediately North West of Rookery Farmhouse

Listing Date: 14 June 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1033102

English Heritage Legacy ID: 279568

ID on this website: 101033102

Location: Westhorpe, Mid Suffolk, IP14

County: Suffolk

District: Mid Suffolk

Civil Parish: Westhorpe

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Westhorpe St Margaret

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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Description


WESTHORPE CHURCH ROAD (SOUTH SIDE)
TM 06 NW
4/112 Service Building
- immediately north west of
Rookery Farm House

GV II

Service building to Rookery Farm House (q.v.). Late C18. Timber frame,
plastered, with some red brick infill. Pantiled roof. A long range of 5 to 7
bays. 2 storeys. Double offset plinth, facing house 3 doors, 3-light ovolo
mullioned louvred windows, 3 on ground floor, 4 on first floor. Axial ridge
stack towards house, roof hipped towards road. To rear 3 stable doors, coach
doors and similar windows. Interior: some reused early timber in frame with
mid-rail, kitchen fireplace reuses a massive moulded stone bressumer
presumably taken from Westhorpe Hall (q.v.) following its demolition c.1760.
Stairs in front of stack, a first floor fireplace with a moulded mantlepiece.


Listing NGR: TM0439669180

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