Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1965. House. 5 related planning applications.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tall-baluster-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1965
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Grove Hill, Dedham, CO7 6DT
- OS grid reference
- TM 051 322
- Coordinates
- 51.9513, 0.98403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a 16th century house that has been altered over time. It is two storeys high and features a timber frame, with some parts exposed and others plastered. The roof is ridged, hipped, and gabled, covered with peg tiles and has eaves. The layout of the building is irregular, with an addition on the east side. The windows are small-paned sash and are placed irregularly throughout the structure.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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
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