Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Farmhouse.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-tallow-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Causeway Road, Broughton
- OS grid reference
- TL 281 779
- Coordinates
- 52.38444, -0.11906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a 17th-century farmhouse that features one storey and an attic. It is constructed with a rough-cast timber frame and has a plain tile roof. The building has a central red brick ridge stack that includes a moulded band and three square shafts. There are two gabled dormer windows fitted with modern casements, as well as two hung sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded wooden architraves, which are accompanied by panelled shutters. The entrance is marked by a central plank door.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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