Brook Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Brook Cottages
- WRENN ID
- steep-rood-bistre
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottages, 1-4, Brook Street, Dedham, CO7 6AD
- OS grid reference
- TM 058 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95909, 0.99521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottages is a range of cottages dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, situated on the north side of Brook Street in Dedham. The cottages are timber-framed and feature a peg-tiled ridged and gabled roof. The central chimney stack is rebuilt in red brick. The structure is two storeys high and exhibits a jetty underbuilt. The first storey has a series of four leaded casement windows. The ground storey includes a lean-to extension to the west, along with two small paned casements, two panelled doors, two leaded casements, one planked door, and two modern casements.
Local climate
Brook Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 23 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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