Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-chapel-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, 14, Chapel Lane, Fowlmere
- OS grid reference
- TL 422 455
- Coordinates
- 52.09031, 0.07479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations and rebuilding occurring in the mid to late 17th century, and extensions added in the late 19th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring a red brick rear wing that is integrated with the main structure on the south elevation through cased red brick over the timber frame. It has plain tiled roofs and two rectangular stacks positioned behind the ridge, along with rear stacks.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic, and it has a lower two-storey range from the original 16th-century building on the left side, while the right side has the extended rear wing, creating a long L-plan. On the west elevation, there is a coved plastered eaves cornice on the right-hand range, which includes a gabled lean-to porch with an entrance featuring a panelled door. The panelled architrave and hood with shaped brackets from this doorway have been relocated, possibly to their original lobby entry position on the left. The ground floor has four 20th-century casement windows, and there are three casement windows on the first floor.
Inside, the left-hand 16th-century range consists of two timber-framed bays, with the ground floor frame showing grooves, possibly for boards, and a chamfered and stopped square-sectioned crown post over the central truss. Originally unheated, this area may have served as a warehouse or floored barn, similar to the Old Manor House. The main range and rear wing feature a pine frame and possibly a reused late 16th-century floor frame, with heavily roll-moulded cross beams and two relined fireplaces.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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