Brookhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
Brookhouse
- WRENN ID
- hidden-gravel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brookhouse, Church Street, Fontmell Magna, SP7 0NY
- OS grid reference
- ST 866 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95158, -2.19173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of rubble and timber-frame with brick infill, and features a half-hipped thatched roof. The building has brick stacks at the ends, which may belong to the original structure. It is one and a half storeys tall with an irregular arrangement of windows. The house is designed in an L-shape, and some of the ground floor windows have brick dressings. Most windows are 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars. There is a plank door located next to the left chimneystack.
Inside, the house features deep chamfered ceiling beams, with those in the north-west room intersecting to create a 9-panel ceiling. There is also an open fireplace with a cambered timber bressumer.
Local climate
Brookhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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