Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Farmhouse.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-hearth-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Cockfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 918 532
- Coordinates
- 52.14397, 0.80186
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a timber-framed and plastered building, likely dating from the 16th to 17th century, though it has been significantly altered and renovated over time. The exterior is now faced in painted brick, and it features a thatched roof that is hipped at the south end. The house has two storeys and small casement windows. A modern gabled porch extends from the front of the building. Inside, there is a tall internal chimney stack, and there is also an external stack located at the north end.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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