Brook Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Brook Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-mullion-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottages, 1 and 2, St. Margaret, South Elmham, IP20 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- TM 316 837
- Coordinates
- 52.40246, 1.404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottages is a house from the early 17th century that has been divided into two separate homes. It stands two storeys high with attics and features a three-cell internal chimney plan, likely with a cross-passage. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with clay pantiles. An internal red brick stack has three attached hexagonal shafts on a rectangular, partially rendered base.
The upper floor has three 3-light casement windows with transoms and one 2-light window, while the ground floor has two 3-light windows and one 2-light window; the windows in No. 1 are 20th-century replacements designed in a traditional style. No. 1 has a studded 20th-century plank door and an open rustic gabled porch, while No. 2 features an old plank door. The gables are adorned with fluted barge-boards. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Brook Cottages 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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