3 and 5, Brook Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
3 and 5, Brook Street
- WRENN ID
- wild-chimney-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 3 and 5, Brook Street, Elsworth, CB23 4HX
- OS grid reference
- TL 316 636
- Coordinates
- 52.25534, -0.07207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 3 and 5 Brook Street is a cottage that was formerly two separate dwellings, dating from the 17th century. It has a timber frame with rough cast render and a painted brick plinth. The thatched roof features a ridge stack and an end stack on the right side. The building is one storey with an attic. There are two sealed entrances, with stone steps leading to the main entrance, which has an early 19th-century six-panelled door. The ground floor includes two sixteen-paned hung sash windows with flush wooden frames and one casement window. Additionally, there are two horizontal sliding sash dormer windows in the attic.
Local climate
3 and 5, Brook Street 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- 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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