Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. Farmhouse.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-facade-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, Brettingham Road, Rattlesden
- OS grid reference
- TL 969 579
- Coordinates
- 52.18495, 0.88008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse from the early to mid 17th century, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building has two storeys and attics, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. It has a plaintiled roof, with the west gable facing the road showcasing an oversailing tie beam that is moulded and supported by brackets. A notable axial 17th-century chimney made of red brick has a moulded and panelled base, topped with four square shafts connected by a cap. The windows are 19th-century small-paned casements, and on the north side, there is a chamber window with a moulded oriel cill in the style of the 17th century. The entrance door, located at the lobby-entrance, is a 19th-century panelled design. At the rear, there is a small two-storey service wing with a slated roof, which includes a 17th-century chimney featuring a sawtooth shaft. The interior has not been examined.
Local climate
Brook Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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