Brooke House

Brooke House is a house dating from 1904, designed by W Aubrey Thomas for his own use. It is built with roughcast on brick, stone dressings, and has sprocketed slate roofs with red tile cresting and rendered coped stacks. The front facing the street (south) is single-storey and attic, with three bays, the left bay cross-gabled and featuring a full-height external stack. A central, round-arched porch contains a recessed six-panel bolection moulded door and rectangular overlight, set within a moulded stone doorcase. Above the arch of the porch is a plain stone shield. To the right of the porch are two four-pane recessed sash windows with cambered heads. Upper-floor windows are in flat-roofed dormers. The garden front (west) is two storeys, also with three bays. The centre has two four-pane recessed sash windows on each floor; to the left is a two-storey square bay with four similar windows, and to the right, a full-height semicircular bay with five similar windows. The east return has a four-panel service door and a single-storey canted bay window to its left, along with a mullioned and transomed four-light window. Inside, there are hardwood four-panel doors. The east room has a plaster dentil cornice, while the south-east room has a festoon and egg and dart cornice. The west room features a coved cornice and interlaced circle ceiling decoration, and the north-west room has an egg and dart cornice and floral ceiling decoration. W Aubrey Thomas was the architect of the Liver Building in Liverpool.