Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A Early C16 Farmhouse.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-loggia-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farmhouse, the Street, Lackford
- OS grid reference
- TL 789 708
- Coordinates
- 52.30622, 0.62294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 16th century, with significant extensions made in the mid-17th century and again in the early 19th century. The building has two storeys and attics, topped with a plain clay tiled roof. The southern section, added in the early 19th century, features a double-pile plan, constructed of red brick with three bays of sash windows and a central panelled entrance door. This section has two storeys and a hipped slated roof, along with a later 19th-century red brick porch.
The core of the farmhouse from the 16th century has exposed timber framing on the interior, showcasing complex rib-mouldings on the first-floor joists and rib-moulded beams. In the 17th century, a large axial chimney stack and a parlour were added to the east end, along with a cross-wing to the west end. The roof of the main range includes large principal rafters and joggled butt purlins. There have been various alterations at the rear in the 19th century, also in red brick.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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