Brook House And Warehouse Adjoining To North

SE 90 NE SCAWBY SCAWBY ROAD (east side) Scawby Brook 6/93 Brook House and warehouse adjoining to north

GV II

House and adjoining warehouse. Late C18 - early C19, with later C19 alterations and additions to house. Red brick; pantiles to house, concrete tiles to warehouse. 2-room central entrance-hall plan to house. House: 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Recessed panelled door and plain overlight beneath rubbed brick cambered arch. 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with stone sills and brick cambered arches. Plain wooden eaves board. Brick-coped gable to right. End stacks. Single-storey outbuildings to right. Warehouse to left: 3 storeys, 5 second-floor openings. Ground floor: 5 segmental-headed openings, 2 with board doors, remainder blocked. First floor: central board door and boarded-up opening adjoining to left beneath wide segmental arch; single openings boarded-up to left and right, and 12-pane sliding sash to right end beneath segmental arches. Second floor: hatches with board shutters and lintels at eaves level. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Brick-coped gable. Left return: timber beam to ground floor right, blocked ground and first-floor openings. Rear: 2 doors to ground floor, other openings boarded-up or blocked at time of resurvey. House contains open-well staircase with ramped handrail, plain balusters and turned newels. The warehouse, which stands adjacent to a stream, is variously reputed to have been a tannery, watermill and maltings: a waterwheel at the north gable-end could have powered a bark mill for a tannery, with storage and drying rooms above. William Sergeant, tanner and fellmonger, was operating at Scawby Brook in the 1830s.

Listing NGR: SE9813306438