Dean Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Dean Brook House
- WRENN ID
- woven-chancel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Makerfield MP: Andy Burnham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dean Brook House, 298, Orrell Road, WN5 8QZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 526 051
- Coordinates
- 53.54081, -2.71574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dean Brook House is a house dating from the 1730s, situated on the north side of Orrell Road. It is constructed of painted brick with stone dressings, stone returns, and a stone slate roof. The house is two storeys tall and has two bays. It features a moulded base and rusticated quoins. The windows have rusticated, cambered arches and are sash windows with glazing bars. The front entrance has rusticated jambs and a wedge lintel with a key stone, leading to a six-panel door. Gable-end stacks are present. The returns and rear of the house feature horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. A rear stair window has two transoms. Inside, the house has six-panel doors with strap hinges, while the attic contains four-fielded-panel doors with H-L hinges. The staircase has a cut string, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail, with paired newels.
Local climate
Dean Brook House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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