Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. A C19 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-forge-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brook Cottage, 1, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 664 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80856, -2.47777
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a detached house located on the north side of Long Street in Cerne Abbas. It dates from the early 19th century and features rendered walls painted white, topped with a flat parapet. The slate roof has stone gable-coping and there are rendered stacks at each gable end. The west elevation has two storeys with three sash windows that include glazing bars and stone cills. The front door is centrally located, recessed and panelled, with two top lights, dating from the 19th century. There is a rear wing that is at right angles to the main structure, also rendered, and covered with asbestos slate roofs. A plank door is found on the south wall of this wing.
Local climate
Brook Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 1999
- 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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