Brooklyn House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. House.
Brooklyn House
- WRENN ID
- open-lantern-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brooklyn House, 26, Cheap Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94907, -2.51669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brooklyn House, located at 26 Cheap Street, is a building that dates back to around the late 18th century. It is a two-storey structure with a two-window bay front, built over an earlier foundation. The building features a plaintile roof and a wood eaves cornice, with a painted brick front.
On the right side, there is a two-storey bow with panelled strips between the sashes and a reeded fascia. The left side showcases a pedimented doorcase that includes panelled reveals, a reeded frieze, a dentil cornice, and a six-fielded panelled door. At the back of the property, there is a 17th-century wing that retains its original staircase.
Brooklyn House is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 30 (even) and Nos 34 to 50 (even).
Local climate
Brooklyn House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2017
- No related consent applications matched
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