Brook House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. House.
Brook House
- WRENN ID
- nether-gateway-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook House, Lower Green, Towersey
- OS grid reference
- SP 736 053
- Coordinates
- 51.742, -0.93521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook House is a house dating from the 16th century, with a raising in the 18th century and a cross-wing added in the 20th century. It features a cruck frame and is constructed of painted uncoursed stone rubble, with some brick on the ground floor, red brick on the first floor, and an old plain-tile roof. There are brick ridge stacks at both the left and right ends, with diagonally-set flues. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range. A plain door from the 20th century is located at the center, with a three-light wood casement window to the left of the door and another three-light wood casement window on the first floor to the left. To the right, there is a two-light wood casement window. Inside, there is a straight-flight staircase from the 20th century at the rear, a base cruck and truss in the center, and open fireplaces on the ground floor. The 20th-century cross-wing is not of special architectural interest.
Local climate
Brook House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 1998
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