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Southbrook: 108 parcels, four recorded plats, one name

Southbrook is the biggest named plat we could document in Franklin, at 108 parcels in the Johnson County records, and the most consequential thing about it is the replatting. An original plat, a Southbrook Re-Sub, a 1st Addition and a 2nd Addition all carry the name, and lot numbers run past 109. Parcels are described in the county record as combinations: one reads 'Re-Sub Lot 43 and part of Lot 109', which tells you original lot lines were redrawn and merged. The county acreage attribute is null for most parcels here, and the few populated records run 0.34 to 0.46 acre.

None of the county data carries a year built, and no builder is sourced for the community, so anyone quoting Southbrook by era is guessing. What is sourced is the geometry and the schools. Documented styles are ranch and two story traditional, story mix isn't published and neither is a house size range. Southbrook falls in Franklin Community School Corporation rather than Center Grove or Clark-Pleasant, which gives it a different identity from the Greenwood area plats it sometimes gets grouped with. One naming caution: Brookside Court in Southbrook is not Brookside West, which is a separate Franklin plat recorded independently.

Southbrook openings: 14 to 20, and no two vintages the same

The exposure question has a clean answer for part of the plat. Southbrook fronts South Mauxferry Road, which runs north to south, so houses on that frontage have east or west principal elevations and take direct low sun on the front of the house, morning or afternoon. Low angle east and west sun is the hardest kind to shade, because it arrives close to horizontal and walks straight under anything overhead. The interior streets, Leerkamp Drive, Centerbrook Drive, Midland Drive, Midland Court, Terrace Court and Brookside Court, vary, so we take the orientation at the address rather than from the plat name.

Casing depth isn't sourced for Southbrook, and the replatting is the reason it can't be assumed. Franklin's post-1990 stock generally presents a nominal 3.25 inch jamb with a flat stop, which is enough depth for most inside mounts. But where an older opening in this plat has been reworked inside the original frame, usable depth can drop by an inch or more, and one inch is the difference between a flush headrail and one that stands proud of the trim. Squareness needs a three point measure. Johnson County clay settles, and the older houses in Franklin have moved on it.

What we specify in Southbrook

Southbrook is mid market Franklin housing and the specification should reflect that honestly. Franklin's median owner occupied home value is $231,500, 16 percent below Greenwood's $276,100, and the sensible money here goes into the rooms that take the sun rather than into upgrading every opening in the house at once. National pricing puts custom treatments at $250 to $2,600 per window and shutters at $175 to $800, against $60 to $600 for standard stock, and the gap between stock and custom is mostly fit. In a replatted plat with variable lot widths and several vintages, fit is the whole argument. Lead time on custom is 2 to 5 weeks.

Southbrook streets, Mauxferry Road and Franklin Community Schools

Southbrook sits in ZIP 46131 on South Mauxferry Road, south of central Franklin, on the Mauxferry Road corridor. Its internal streets are Leerkamp Drive, Centerbrook Drive, Midland Drive, Midland Court, Terrace Court and Brookside Court. Watch the names when you book: Brookside Court here is not Brookside West, a separately recorded Franklin plat, and Southbrook gets confused with Stonybrook out on East 250 South constantly. Schools are Franklin Community School Corporation, which the county parcel field abbreviates as FRANKLIN COMMUNI, with Franklin Community Middle School and Franklin Community High School above elementary assignment by address.

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