Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. House, farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-portal-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Brook House, Minsterley, SY5 0BE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 374 049
- Coordinates
- 52.63872, -2.92553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a mid-17th century farmhouse, later divided and now used as a house. It has an L-shaped layout, with two framed bays aligned roughly north-west to south-east, and a single-bay gabled cross-wing projecting to the north-east. The building is timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, a rubble and brick plinth, and a 20th-century machine tile roof. The framing consists of square panels, three from the sole-plate to the wall-plate, with short straight corner braces. It has one storey and an attic.
The north-west front features an off-centre brick stack on the cross-wing and a 19th-century diagonal brick stack to the rear. The cross-wing has a 19th-century two-light wooden casement and a boarded door to its left. A hall range projects to the right, with 19th-century two-light wooden casements in both floors of the gable end. An exposed collar and tie-beam truss, with queen struts and v-struts, is also visible. The return front to the left has three-light wooden casements to the right and a boarded door to its left, with a gabled porch. A probable 19th-century lean-to addition, with a slate roof, is at the rear.
The interior includes chamfered beams with ogee stops, a large open fireplace with an ogee-stopped chamfered lintel, and old boarded doors with strap hinges.
Local climate
Brook House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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