Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1995. House.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tangled-baluster-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Pettaugh Lane, Ashbocking
- OS grid reference
- TM 163 561
- Coordinates
- 52.16111, 1.16234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations. It features a plastered timber frame with brick modifications and has plain tile and pantile roofs with gabled ends. The house has brick axial stacks. The overall plan is L-shaped, consisting of a two-room front range with a central entrance. The left room, which is heated from an axial stack, may be an addition or have raised eaves. The right room is heated from a stack at the back, which serves back-to-back fireplaces in the room and the rear wing behind.
The exterior is two storeys high, with a window arrangement of two over one. The left side has two windows with raised eaves, and all windows are plastic casements with glazing bars. There is a 20th-century gabled porch at the centre, and plastic casement windows are also present at the sides and rear.
Inside, the right-hand room and the room in the rear wing share the stack with back-to-back fireplaces that have timber lintels, and both rooms feature chamfered axial beams. The roof structure has not been seen.
Local climate
Brook Cottage 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
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