Brookbank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Brookbank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- calm-pewter-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brookbank Farmhouse, Goostrey, CW4 8BX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 788 708
- Coordinates
- 53.23431, -2.31848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookbank Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse constructed of brown brick with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring three bays. The windows are three-light flush casements with glazing bars, stone sills, and flat cambered arches. There is a tall staircase window and remnants of a sandstone plinth. A lean-to on the east side includes a boarded door set in a heavy frame. The farmhouse has gable end stacks.
Inside, the farmhouse showcases deep bevelled beams and an ogee moulded beam, along with a moulded inglenook beam. It features boarded doors on "HL" hinges and Jacobean two-panel doors. The dogleg staircase is adorned with splat balusters. On the first floor, there are boarded doors on old strap hinges and ovolo moulded beams. In the attic, there are timbers in an internal wall and a Queen Anne style six-panel door.
Local climate
Brookbank Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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