Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- old-brick-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, Finchingfield Road, Stambourne, CO9 4NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 708 366
- Coordinates
- 52.00242, 0.48762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier and has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The main range has three bays and is aligned approximately north-south, featuring an axial chimney stack at the south end and an external chimney stack at the north end. There is a two-bay crosswing to the south and a single-storey extension to the south that was added in the 20th century. A lean-to porch at the south end of the hall creates a catslide roof and faces east. The crosswing has two storeys, while the rest of the house is single storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are four casement windows, one of which is probably from the 18th century, while the others are from the 20th century. The first floor features three 20th-century casement windows, two of which are located in gabled dormers. All windows have 20th-century diamond leading. The main chimney stack has two diagonal shafts, and the date 1578 is inscribed in modern plaster in the gable of the crosswing.
Local climate
Brook House 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- 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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