Description

SP 75 SW STOKE BRUERNE BRIDGE ROAD
(West side)
4/157 Farm buildings enclosing 3
sides of yard opposite Rookery
Farmhouse

GV II

Range of farm buildings, including barn and granary, stabling and shelter sheds.
c.1840. Coursed squared limestone and red brick; hipped slate roofs. U plan. 1
and 2 storeys. Single-storey shelter shed range facing house is open to yard on
brick segmental-arched arcade. Barn to right forms part of right return range
and has pair of double-leaf opposed doors with wood lintels and segmental-arched
heads. 2-storey, 3-window granary to outer end of left return range has doors
and windows with ironstone jambs and lintels with keyblocks, those to side
facing road are blind. Former cart-standing to rear now blocked. Faces Rookery
Farmhouse (q.v.) across Bridge Road. Rookery Farm was originally part of the
Grafton Estate and this model farm yard closely resembles those of a group of
model farms built 1839-44 for 4th Duke of Grafton as part of an extensive
programme of agricultural improvements.

Listing NGR: SP7453150050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26582071

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)