Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-basalt-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Northlew
- OS grid reference
- SX 506 990
- Coordinates
- 50.77163, -4.11892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage is a small house dating from around the mid-19th century, with a later 19th-century addition. The building features rendered walls and a gable-ended slate roof, with two rendered brick stacks at the left end and one axial stack. The original layout was likely a symmetrical two-room plan, probably double depth, with a central entrance and likely service rooms at the rear. In the later 19th century, the house was extended at the right-hand end, likely for non-domestic purposes, and an outshut was built in front. The exterior is two storeys high, with the original symmetrical three-window front on the left side, which includes 16-pane sash windows and a central gabled 20th-century porch with a 19th-century panelled door behind. The right-hand end has an additional window and a doorway on the first floor next to a 20th-century casement, with an outshut projecting from its right-hand end. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Brook Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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