Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. A Late 18th century House. 6 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- second-cornice-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, 265, High Street, Boston Spa, LS23 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SE 436 452
- Coordinates
- 53.90174, -1.33695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house built between 1796 and 1801, with a roadside front added before 1805, and an early to mid-19th century addition on the left side. It was built by Francis Prentis. The house is constructed of ashlar magnesian limestone with a Westmorland slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a 1:3-bay arrangement. The central entrance is a panelled door within a stone doorcase featuring ribbed pilasters and a fanlight with radial glazing bars, all topped by a peaked cornice. The sash windows have glazing bars, projecting stone sills, louvred shutters, and flat-arched heads; the ground-floor windows are larger. The eaves feature dentils, decorative kneelers, and ashlar gable coping. The end stacks are shouldered and cement-rendered, with bands. A later basket-arched carriage entrance, with a sash window above, adjoins the house on the left; the other adjoining properties are not of special architectural or historic interest. The house's history is detailed by B.M. Scott in his publication "Boston Spa" (second edition, 1985).
Local climate
Brook House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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