Brook House is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1952. A C17 Farmhouse, house. 2 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- burning-grate-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse, house
- Address
- Brook House, Walwyn Road, Colwall, WR13 6QX
- OS grid reference
- SO 752 421
- Coordinates
- 52.07736, -2.36319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating largely to the 17th century, with extensions circa 1910 by Sir E Guy Dawber. It is timber-framed with regular square infill panels and continuous tiled roofs, featuring four chimneys with brick shafts. The house was extended from an "L" shape to an "H" plan. It has two storeys, with a 1:2:1 window arrangement and two gabled cross-wings. Weatherboarding is present on the horizontal framing members of the southwest and northeast gables, and regularly placed casement windows were added circa 1910. A 17th-century entrance is located at the northwest end. The interior of the house features heavy ceiling beams in the 17th-century ground floor rooms, and a late 17th-century dog-leg staircase, notable for its decorative plank balusters. This staircase is attributed to the same craftsman who produced similar examples at the Elms School, Colwall, and Bush Farmhouse, Coddington. The internationally famous gardens, featuring a stream and small weir, provide a beautiful setting for the house.
Local climate
Brook House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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