Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-quartz-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, 41, School Lane, Woodhouse, LE12 8UJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 536 148
- Coordinates
- 52.72883, -1.207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century to the 18th century. It is constructed of granite and slate rubble stone, red brick, and buff brick, topped with a Swithland slate roof that features a stack at the right end. The cottage has one and a half storeys and includes two-light casements. It is situated next to a stream, with the central door accessed via a small slate bridge. The doorway has a cambered lintel, with a casement window on either side. There is a blocked door and casement on the left end, which features a queen post truss and a casement in the gable. The left end gable also has a casement window. Additionally, there is a one and a half storey extension from the 20th century at the rear.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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