Brook House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1983. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Brook House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
peeling-pavement-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1983
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Brook House Farmhouse, Catworth, PE28 0PQ
OS grid reference
TL 081 731
Coordinates
52.3459, -0.41438
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brook House Farmhouse is a late 16th century or early 17th century farmhouse that features a parallel range, including a staircase hall added to the west around 1800. A wing was constructed to the south-west around 1840. The building has two storeys, with the earliest section being timber-framed, rough-cast rendered, and topped with a plain tiled roof. There is a 19th century brick ridge stack.

On the west-facing elevation, there are four first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars, along with three similar ground floor windows and a half-glazed garden door. A verandah on the north and east sides has a wooden boarded and plain tiled roof supported by bracketed wooden posts. The 19th century wing to the south is made of rendered brick and has a shallow, hipped slate roof with end stacks. The eaves cornice features paired modillions.

The south-facing wing includes three first floor recessed hung sash windows with glazing bars, one horizontal sliding sash window, and one casement window, all flanking a closed porch. Inside, the farmhouse boasts an inglenook hearth, some exposed ceiling beams, and a fine canted open string staircase with slender twisted balusters.

Local climate

Brook House Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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