Stables To East Of Brook House

The stables to the east of Brook House, dated 1726, are a two-storey building with an attic, now serving as an agricultural outbuilding. Constructed of brick, the stables feature a rubble stone plinth topped with a moulded brick cap and brick-coped gables, all under a plain-tile roof. There are later 19th-century lean-to extensions at the ends and rear.

The south-west front has a five-window range with segmental-arched openings. The first floor has boarded openings, two of which are brick-blocked, while the ground level features three boarded openings and two stable doors. Brick storey bands are present at the first and second floors, and there is an inset stone tablet displaying the date 1726 and the initials R S. Dovecote holes and ledges are located under the eaves on the left side.

At the rear, there is a plain boarded door with an oak frame and a 18th-century oak-framed mullion window with cyma-moulding to the right, which is covered by a 19th-century lean-to at the first-floor level, built over a brick-vaulted ground-floor retaining wall.

Inside, the ground and first floors feature chamfered bridging beams with ogee chamfer stops. The upper floors are divided between a hayloft on the right and living accommodation on the left. The roof consists of double trenched purlins with three upper cruck trusses: two closed trusses flanking one open truss. These trusses have shouldered principals, cruck spurs, high collars, posts framing the door-head, vertical struts, and a middle rail, with all purlins and open truss members chamfered. An attic door incorporates reused 16th-century carved panelling.