Brookscroft is a Grade II listed building in the Waltham Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. House. 1 related planning application.

Brookscroft

WRENN ID
carved-cupola-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waltham Forest
Constituency
Walthamstow MP: Ms Stella Creasy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
House
Address
Brookscroft, 590, Forest Road E17, E17 3UD
OS grid reference
TQ 377 897
Coordinates
51.5897, -0.01287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brookscroft is a substantial detached house built around 1760. It is constructed of stock brick and features a slate mansard roof with a parapet. The house has two storeys, plus dormers, and is five bays wide, with an early to mid 19th-century two-bay extension set back to the right. The central three bays are slightly set forward and have a pediment. There are steps leading up to the central entrance, which has a pedimented Doric doorcase, a trigliph frieze, and a six-panelled door. The windows are square gauged leaded sashes with glazing bars, and there is a thermal window in the pediment. A band runs between the storeys, and there is a modillion cornice. Inside, the house features a contemporary open tread staircase with turned balusters and carved tread-ends, as well as several fireplaces, with the one in the drawing room being more elaborate than the others.

Local climate

Brookscroft 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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