Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. Cottage.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-sandstone-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Sopley
- OS grid reference
- SZ 159 985
- Coordinates
- 50.78634, -1.77573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, and possibly earlier. It features roughcast walls, likely made of cob, and has a thatched roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has three bays, with an outshot at the front and one end. The front of the cottage has a plank door in a solid frame located to the left of the center. Each bay contains two-light casement windows, and there is a high-set two-light eyebrow dormer in the center. The roof slopes down towards the front and the right-hand end, and there is a chimney stack at the left-hand end. Additionally, there is a casement window in the outshot on the right-hand side.
Local climate
Brook Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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