Brooks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Brooks Cottage

WRENN ID
winter-timber-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Brooks Cottage, Belchalwell Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0EG
OS grid reference
ST 797 090
Coordinates
50.88031, -2.28963
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brooks Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located in Okeford Fitzpaine. It features rendered, whitewashed walls and a thatched roof, which has a gabled right side and a half-hipped left side with a brick stack at the right end. The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window range. The ground floor on the left has a 20th-century casement window without glazing bars, while the other windows are three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. The entrance is a plain wooden door.

Local climate

Brooks Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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