Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-shingle-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Westbury, SY5 9QX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 353 094
- Coordinates
- 52.67878, -2.95711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of painted coursed sandstone rubble with a slate roof. The cottage originally comprised two rooms. It has two storeys and a two-window front. A large external stone chimney stack is located on the left, with a brick top stage, and an external brick end stack is to the right. The windows are C19 two-light wooden casements. A central boarded door is present, along with a C20 half-glazed gabled porch, which has a door in the return front on the right-hand side. A one-storey lean-to addition is on the left, featuring a segmental-headed two-light casement window to the right and a boarded door with a gabled hood to the left. The interior was not inspected, but it contains a large open fireplace with a chamfered, shallow, triangular-headed lintel. Brook Cottage is a complete and well-preserved example of a small 18th-century cottage. Historical context is provided by C. Ryan's unpublished thesis, "The evolution of the peasant house in Shropshire."
Local climate
Brook Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 1999
- 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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