Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-jade-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Mellis Road, Wortham, IP22 1PY
- OS grid reference
- TM 084 770
- Coordinates
- 52.35221, 1.05882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The house comprises three main sections. It is single-storey with an attic. The front door is positioned slightly left of centre. There are 19th and 20th century windows with 1, 2, and 3 lights, with glazing bars. One window to the right of the entrance has a single central light. Two dormers with raking tiled heads are visible from the front. An axial ridge stack is located to the left of centre, and a 19th century external stack is on the right gable end. An attic window with two lights is in the left gable end, showing exposed plates and purlins. The rear of the house has a door and windows similar to those at the front, and the right bay projects slightly beyond the others. Inside, there is an ogee stop-chamfered axial binding beam, altered framing, reverse curved and tension bracing, and the first floor frame is hidden.
Local climate
Brook Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1999
- 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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