Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1983. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- last-frieze-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook House, Bealings Road, Martlesham, IP12 4RW
- OS grid reference
- TM 248 473
- Coordinates
- 52.0785, 1.28039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is an early 18th-century farmhouse featuring a lobby entrance. The building is one storey high with dormers and is constructed from timber framing and colour washed brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. It has a central stack and two windows that are sashes with plank shutters. There are also two gabled dormers with casements that include glazing bars. The brick gabled porch has a 20th-century reproduction boarded door and a segmental fanlight with radial glazing bars.
Local climate
Brook House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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