The Brook is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.
The Brook
- WRENN ID
- dim-rafter-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Brook, 138, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 485 488
- Coordinates
- 52.11816, 0.16762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brook is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with the front elevation covered in brick and painted. The house has two end stacks made of some early brick and is topped with plain tiled roofs. It is two storeys high with an attic and has a long east-west range that includes a staircase projection, a 19th-century gable end, and rear additions. The entrance is located to the right of the centre and includes a rectangular fanlight above a panelled door, along with a portico supported by slender columns and pilasters, dating from around 1810. The ground floor has three recessed twelve-paned hung sash windows, while the first floor features five horizontal sliding sash windows. Inside, there are exposed ceiling beams, and the fireplace has been relined with brick. The staircase leading to the first floor has flat shaped balusters, and oak boards surround the central newel leading to the attic floor.
Local climate
The Brook sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 2002
- 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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