Brook Lea House (Shown on Os Map As Brook House) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Brook Lea House (Shown on Os Map As Brook House)
- WRENN ID
- small-cornice-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Lea House (Shown on Os Map As Brook House), East Green, Cotherstone, DL12 9PQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 013 195
- Coordinates
- 54.571, -1.98061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Lea House, also shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Brook House, is a house dating from the 18th century, with significant alterations and additions made in 1953. It features rendered masonry, a stone-flagged roof, and stone chimney stacks.
The house is two stories tall and has four bays, with a set-back left bay that is a later addition. The right bay has a replaced glazed door with a renewed projecting surround, and the door lintel is inscribed with "1733 IAM 1953." The windows have been replaced and feature projecting sills, with 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and 9-pane sashes above. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, along with rebuilt end and ridge stacks that have top bands.
There is a one-storey addition to the right and 20th-century additions to the rear, which are not of special interest. The building has considerable value within the village landscape. It should not be confused with Brook House located on the west side of East Green.
Local climate
Brook Lea House (Shown on Os Map As Brook House) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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