Brook Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brook Farm House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-baluster-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Brook Farm House, North Street, Haselbury Plucknett, TA18 7RJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 472 110
- Coordinates
- 50.89608, -2.75163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Farm House is a detached farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with modifications made particularly in the 19th century. It features a rear of ham stone with ashlar, and a steeply pitched roof covered with double Roman concrete tiles, which replaced the original thatch. The house has brick and chimney stacks and stands two storeys tall with four bays.
The windows are horizontal-bar casements with gauged stone flat arches over the lower windows; the second bay on the upper floor has a two-light window, while the others have three-light windows. On the ground floor of bay two, there is a six-panel door set in a deep timber-panelled reveal in Regency style, framed by an outer timber architrave.
To the south gable, there is a two-storey extension that is set lower than the main building, featuring a three-light casement window below and another three-light above, topped with a plain gabled roof. The north gable is plain.
Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to have a through-passage three-room plan. The hall is noted for its complex ceiling with deep moulded beams, featuring 30 panels, while the parlour has a similar ceiling with 24 panels. The ground floor has stud and plank partitioning, and the staircase is external to the main building. The roof frame has been partly replaced, but the northern section retains at least one jointed cruck, an enclosed ridge, chamfered purlins, and traces of windbraces, with a modern roof set above the old structure.
Local climate
Brook Farm House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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