Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. House.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-turret-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, 198, Swan Street, Sible Hedingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 780 345
- Coordinates
- 51.98047, 0.59117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with a date of 1789 noted in a sunk panel on the chimney. It features a timber frame and is plastered with batten decoration. The roof is hipped and covered with red plain tiles, and there is a moulded and dentilled eaves cornice. A central red brick chimney stack is present. The house has two storeys, with a five-window range on the first floor and a four-window range on the ground floor. The ground floor windows are 20th-century leaded three-light windows with transoms, except for a two-light central window on the first floor. There is a 20th-century red tiled open porch supported by timber, leading to a 20th-century board door with a light.
Local climate
Brook House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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