Brook House is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A C16 House. 5 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-turret-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6AB
- OS grid reference
- TM 058 331
- Coordinates
- 51.9591, 0.9944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a 16th-century house located on Dedham High Street. It is a two-storey building with attics. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a ridged, gabled, and pegged tiled roof and two red brick chimneys, one inset at the east end. The west gable originally had a jetty, but this has been replaced with brick underbuilding. It features two circular windows in the gable. The west-facing gable has one pair of small-paned sash windows on the first storey, and a square bay window on the ground storey featuring small-paned sashes and a dentilled cornice. A door is set within a case to the right of the wing. The east range has four small-paned sash windows on the first storey, a square bay window on the ground storey with matching sashes and a dentilled cornice, and three matching sashes on the ground storey. A six-panel door is situated on the right of this wing. There is also one flat-roofed dormer window. The building holds group value, indicating its importance to the wider setting.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings