6a and 8, Brook Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

6a and 8, Brook Street

WRENN ID
high-corbel-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
6a and 8, Brook Street, Elsworth
OS grid reference
TL 317 635
Coordinates
52.25424, -0.07191
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 6A and No. 8 on Brook Street is a cottage that dates back to the 17th century, with a late 19th-century addition. The original structure is timber framed and has been plastered, while the later addition features 19th-century gault brick. The cottage has a thatched roof that is half hipped to the north, along with a slate roof. The original part of the cottage is one storey with an attic and has a plastered brick ridge stack. The later addition to the south is two storeys tall and features two symmetrical bays with end stacks that replace the parlour end of the original 17th-century building.

The cottage has two first-floor hung sash windows with margin glazing bars and two similar ground-floor windows that flank a four-panelled door topped with a rectangular fanlight set in a segmental brick arch. There is also one horizontal sliding sash dormer window and two ground-floor horizontal sliding sash windows. The entrance includes a C18 six-panelled door approached by steps, and the building has a tarred brick plinth.

Local climate

6a and 8, 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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