Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. House.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-forge-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, Low Street, Bardwell, IP31 1AS
- OS grid reference
- TL 941 730
- Coordinates
- 52.32101, 0.84737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber-framed and stands on a brick and flint plinth that is nearly as high as the entire ground storey. The house has two storeys and features six bays arranged in a three-cell plan. There is an internal chimney-stack, which may have been built into an earlier smoke-bay. The north side has a 20th-century brick gable end with a chimney-stack. The roof is covered with black glazed pantiles. The windows include three-light and two-light casements, with the ground storey windows being from the 20th century and those on the upper storey dating to the 19th century. Inside, all framing is exposed, showcasing heavy main beams and joists set on edge. The trusses have long arched braces, and the roof structure consists of side purlins with principal rafters.
Local climate
Brook House 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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