Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1954. House. 2 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- noble-pewter-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Epping Forest MP: Dr Neil Hudson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, High Road, Chigwell, IG7 6PU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 440 935
- Coordinates
- 51.62258, 0.0791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is an 18th-century house that has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings and has a roof made of handmade red tiles. The house features a double-pile plan with the original entrance elevation, which is now the garden elevation, facing southwest. There are two chimney stacks on each side wall.
To the northeast, there is a two-storey service wing from the 18th century, and a two-storey extension from the 19th century, along with a further two-storey extension from the 20th century, each of which now functions as a separate house. The main block is three storeys high.
On the southwest elevation, there are five French windows with segmental heads and segmental arches made of gauged red brick, along with red brick jambs. A red brick string course runs along the elevation. The first floor features four double-hung sash windows with six lights, complete with blind boxes, segmental heads, and segmental arches of gauged red brick, along with a dummy window in the middle. Above this is a string course and a moulded cornice of red brick. The second floor has four double-hung sash windows with four lights, similar heads, and another dummy window in the middle. There is also a string course of red brick and a parapet with stone coping.
Three stone steps lead up to the central French window. The 19th-century southeast extension has three double-hung sash windows with twelve lights on each floor, featuring segmental brick arches. The southeast elevation of the northeast wing includes a 20th-century door and porch, along with three double-hung sash windows with twelve lights on each floor, which contain many panes of crown glass. This elevation also has two string courses and a parapet with stone coping.
A 19th-century glazed door in a reeded wooden doorcase with a semi-elliptical pediment is located on the northeast elevation of the main block. The northwest elevation, facing the road, has blank window recesses.
Local climate
Brook House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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