Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. House. 6 related planning applications.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- endless-string-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, 16, London Road, Ware, SG12 9LP
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 139
- Coordinates
- 51.80741, -0.02946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is an 18th-century house built over an earlier timber frame. The front features bricks near the door that are dated 1737 and initialed GW, WEW, and WP. It has plum red brickwork with cherry red dressings and an old tiled roof edged with Welsh slates above a wooden eaves cornice. The house is two storeys high with attics and includes two box casement dormers. There is a plat band at the first floor level and full-height brick Tuscan pilasters at each end, topped with entablatures. The sash windows have glazing bars, with three on the first floor set back in reveals and two on the ground floor nearly flush with exposed boxes and moulded architraves, all beneath flat rubbed brick arches. The entrance features a six-panel door, with four fielded panels and the top two glazed, set in a reveal and surrounded by an architrave under a frieze and cornice hood. At the rear, there is a 19th-century wing made of yellow-grey brick with a Welsh slated roof.
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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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