Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Farmhouse.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-brass-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Gauntons Bank, Marbury and District
- OS grid reference
- SJ 563 474
- Coordinates
- 53.0228, -2.6515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with a 19th-century addition. It is constructed from timber framing with brick infill and has a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a baffle-entry plan.
The entrance front consists of four bays, with the two bays on the right being older than those on the left, although all have been refaced in the 19th century. The right-hand bays include a central 20th-century doorway with a gabled porch above, flanked by three-light casement windows with cambered heads that have been blocked to create flat lintels. The first floor has two three-light casement windows. On the left side at ground floor level, there are two two-light windows with cambered heads that are also blocked to form flat lintels, along with two two-light casements on the first floor. A chimney stack is located to the left of the centre of the ridge.
The right gable end features a central brick chimney stack with offsets and two vestigial horizontal beams on the lower walling. The truss at the gable has a cambered tie beam and vertical struts above. At the rear, the left side has brick walling from the later addition, with a 20th-century lean-to single-storey outshut below. To the left of this is a jowelled corner post indicating the original end of the building. Further left are eight by two cells of small framing that likely date from the late 16th century, with the original lower framing replaced by brickwork. The far left contains three additional cells of uneven small framing, which appear to be from the late 17th or early 18th century, replacing earlier framing.
Inside, the kitchen features chamfered ceiling beams, one of which seems to have been relocated from another building. The parlour has chamfered ceiling beams and an ingle-nook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. On the first floor, there are two trusses with cambered tie beams supporting a series of vertical posts.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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