Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-outpost-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, Brook Street, Great Bardfield, CM7 4RQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 676 305
- Coordinates
- 51.94793, 0.43835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house dating to the late 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber framed and the front is plastered and faced with red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. It has a double range plan, facing north, with end stacks on the front range. A 19th-century extension recedes at an obtuse angle to the left of the main elevation, and another 19th-century extension is on the right. A single-storey extension from the 20th century is also on the right. The main part of the house has a high-quality brick facade with tuck pointing and gauged brick arches. The ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows, each containing 20 lights; the first floor has three windows, each containing 12 lights, all with flat arches. A central six-panel door and fanlight featuring cast iron tracery, with a radial design and garlands, is set within a recessed arch. The left extension has a single early 20th-century sash window on the first floor. The right extension has a range of 19th-century sash windows and a six-panel door with a plain light over, set in a moulded architrave.
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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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