Brooke Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brooke Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-keystone-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Brooke Cottage, Lake Bridge, Brampford Speke, EX5 5DU
- OS grid reference
- SX 926 978
- Coordinates
- 50.77055, -3.52374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brooke Cottage is a cottage, originally a farmhouse, dating from around the early 17th century. It is constructed of rendered cob on a stone plinth, with a half-hipped thatched roof and an internal end stack on the left. Originally a three-room plan with a cross passage, it had a kitchen on the left and higher rooms to the right. The original kitchen has been significantly altered and its front obscured by a 20th-century thatched wing on the south side. The original entrance has been blocked, marked by a 20th-century window flanked by Thorverton stone buttresses; the current entrance is to the right, under a thatched porch. The front of the original building has four windows above and three below. The left-hand end fireplace contains a small oven, stone jamb, and a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. The former hall fireplace is similar, without an oven and with step stops. Throughout the cottage, beams remain, with chamfered edges and step stops. The first floor and roof were not inspected.
Local climate
Brooke Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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