Brooke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1979. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brooke Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-passage-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 88 SE WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. CHURCH TERRACE Handforth
2/277 Brooke Farmhouse (formerly listed as Brooks Farmhouse.)
5/10/1979
II
Farmhouse: early C17 core, rewalling and additions dated 1714, later C18 alterations. Originally timber-framed now English garden wall bond orange brick on sandstone plinth and with sandstone quoins. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 3 brick chimneys. Originally 2-room plan now T-shaped. 2-storey, 3-bay south front. Right end bay projects under gable and has 3-light wooden casements, the lower one with remains of brick hood mould. In gable is original timber truss. Left end bay has 3-light casements, under cambered brick head below and a central 4-board door recessed behind very simple wooden architrave. West end has semi-circular headed date plaque reading BENEDICT BROOK 1714 and a carved badger. West front has remains of 2 ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows. Interior: Timber framed partition walls and bead-moulded ceiling beams. Some C18 3-board doors and 1 C17 with 2 recessed moulded panels. Roof structure intact and shows wind-braced lower purlins.
Listing NGR: SJ8608883602
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