Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. A C18 Farmhouse.

Brook House

WRENN ID
quartered-terrace-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 May 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brook House, Red Lane, Hopesay
OS grid reference
SO 393 834
Coordinates
52.44574, -2.89433
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brook House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the mid-18th century with later additions and alterations. It features painted uncoursed limestone rubble with stone angle quoins and a plain tile roof that has integral end stacks with painted brick shafts. The building is two storeys high with a gable-lit attic and a semi-cellar to the left, topped with a moulded eaves cornice. The front has three windows, which are early 19th-century leaded casements set in segmental-headed stone surrounds. The central entrance is marked by a flat-roofed porch that includes a fixed-light window at the front and a doorway to the right, leading to a 20th-century glazed inner door.

Inside, the right ground-floor room features a chamfered spine beam and a large stone fireplace with a pilastered surround. The roof consists of single purlins arranged in three bays, with a wide central bay and two upper cruck trusses that rest on tie beams. These structural elements are likely original to the house rather than taken from an earlier building.

Local climate

Brook House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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