Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Brook Cottage

WRENN ID
sharp-gateway-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Brook Cottage, Seal, TN15 0SD
OS grid reference
TQ 558 515
Coordinates
51.24162, 0.23118
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Brook Cottage is a building that likely dates back to the 16th century. It has two storeys and features three windows. The cottage has a high-pitched tiled roof with an old ridge stack and an attic window in the gable end. The roof slopes low in the centre at the back and is flanked by modern extensions. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is made of brick. There is a modern projecting gabled porch and 19th-century casement windows. The left side of the building shows weatherboarding above and rubble masonry below. Inside, there is much exposed timber.

Local climate

Brook Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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