Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1978. Farmhouse.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- heavy-hearth-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Chapel Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 363 004
- Coordinates
- 53.49646, -2.96101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1691, as indicated by the inscribed date stone. It is constructed of brick with some stone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays. There is an ovolo moulded brick band above the ground floor, which includes windows with gauged brick flat arches and casements. The entrance, located between the second and third bays, has a segmental head and a date stone above it. The farmhouse has a cross-axial stack and a stack on the right gable end. At the rear, there is a gabled porch that is now plastered.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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