Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Brook House

WRENN ID
lost-mantel-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Brook House, Henny Road, Lamarsh, CO8 5ER
OS grid reference
TL 891 356
Coordinates
51.98721, 0.75272
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brook House is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of five or six bays arranged east-west, with the gable end facing the road and the main entrance located to the north. There is an external chimney stack to the south of the western bay and an internal chimney stack located two bays from the eastern end. The house features three lean-to extensions on the north side, one of which has a catslide roof, and one lean-to extension on the south side.

The house is two storeys high. On the western gable end, there are two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The southern garden elevation includes a pair of 19th-century French windows with marginal lights, one 20th-century sash window, two 20th-century casement windows, and one 20th-century door set in a glazed lean-to porch. On the first floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows and two 20th-century sashes.

At the western end, there is an underbuilt jetty, and the two western bays feature axial and transverse beams and joists with a horizontal section, all of which are moulded. The beams and joists in the eastern bays are heavy but plain.

Local climate

Brook House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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