Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Cottage.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-keystone-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Ford Lane, Alresford
- OS grid reference
- TM 065 203
- Coordinates
- 51.84338, 0.9973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is an estate cottage dating from around 1830. It is constructed with a timber frame and is weatherboarded. The roof is half hipped and gambrelled, featuring red plain tiles and pantiles, with a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The cottage has one storey and attics, with small paned horizontal sliding sash windows on both the right and left sides, each with pentice boards above. A central gabled trellis porch leads to a vertically boarded door. The oak frame of the cottage is intact. It was formerly a workers' cottage for Alresford Hall.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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