Brookend Close is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Brookend Close
- WRENN ID
- sharp-spindle-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brookend Close, Chapel Road, Great Eversden, CB23 1HP
- OS grid reference
- TL 366 536
- Coordinates
- 52.16446, -0.00399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookend Close is a house dating from the early 18th century that has been extended. It features a timber frame, is rendered, and has a tiled roof with an original red brick ridge stack. The building has a single range, three-bay lobby entry plan oriented end to the road and stands two storeys high. The fenestration is scattered and modern. There is a doorway on the northeast side leading to the original lobby entry. Inside, the timber framing is exposed, showcasing staggered studwork over bracing and plain unjowled heads to the main posts. The roof has side purlins. There is an inglenook hearth, which has been rebuilt, and a smaller parlour hearth in the room at the southeast end. Additionally, there is a small 18th-century red brick hearth in the chamber above the parlour.
Local climate
Brookend Close 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 85% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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