Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-slate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, London Road, Copford
- OS grid reference
- TL 934 240
- Coordinates
- 51.88181, 0.80878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a 17th century house that has undergone alterations in the late 18th century. It is timber framed and faced in painted brick, topped with a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range of vertical sliding double hung sashes with glazing bars. A 17th century chimney stack has been rebuilt at the top in the 19th century. The entrance is marked by a flat topped door surround with moulded and recessed architraves.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 650 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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