Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. A C17 Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-rood-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Water Lane, Shalford, CM7 4QX
- OS grid reference
- TL 725 269
- Coordinates
- 51.91457, 0.50684
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with weatherboarding and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing northeast, with an axial beam near one end. There are two 20th-century extensions to the rear, with catslide roofs, and a 20th-century lean-to extension to the left end. The cottage is single-storey with attics. It has five 20th-century casement windows, and one more in a gabled dormer. A boarded door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The date 1681 is inscribed in modern plaster on the dormer. Inside, the original large wood-burning hearth has been reduced for a 20th-century grate, with chamfered axial and transverse beams, plain joists of vertical section, jowled posts, and primary straight bracing.
Local climate
Brook Cottage 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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