Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-rubblework-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Brook Farm, Halesworth Road, Chediston, IP19 0AE
- OS grid reference
- TM 338 777
- Coordinates
- 52.34778, 1.43227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates mainly from the early 17th century, with a 16th-century core and a later addition on the right side. It is timber framed and plastered, with the facade covered in colourwashed brick and a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring four windows that include various casements and one inset sash window on the left. There is a central boarded door and two internal stacks.
On the ground floor, the older part of the house has heavy unchamfered joists and two diamond-mullioned windows, which may indicate that it originally included the lower bay of an open hall. The early 17th-century addition shows exposed framing at the first floor level, retains the remains of one five-light diamond-mullioned window, and includes some original doors and floorboarding, as well as newel stairs. There is a gap of approximately 0.3 meters between the framing of the two sections.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- 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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