Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-cornice-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, 20, High Street, Erlestoke
- OS grid reference
- ST 963 539
- Coordinates
- 51.28478, -2.05351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is timber-framed and mostly fronted in painted brick, with early 20th century applied half-timbering. The roof is hipped and covered with plain tiles, featuring a ridge stack. The building has two storeys and a three-window range of casement pairs, with a central door set in a gabled rustic porch. The front elevation is clad in 20th century decorative timbering, while the west side is finished in painted brick. The east side reveals the original timber framing, which includes angle braces.
Local climate
Brook Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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