Brooke House

Brooke House is a house that has been converted into an office, built around 1810. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a parapeted roof in the Georgian style. The building is three storeys high and has a two-window range. The plain brick parapet is topped with a cornice. The entrance boasts a doorcase with panelled pilasters and a bracketed cornice, along with a blind fanlight featuring Y-tracery above a half-glazed door. The windows have sills and are topped with rubbed brick flat arches with keys, featuring 12-pane sashes on the lower floors and 6-pane sashes on the second floor. The first-floor windows are fitted with louvred shutters. Above the entrance, there is an ashlar plaque placed by antiquarian Richard Greene in the 18th century, which marks the site of the death of Lord Brooke, a Parliamentary commander during the Civil War, who was shot during the first siege of the Close on 2nd March 1643. Inside, the front room includes a segmental-headed recess, and there is a dogleg staircase at the rear with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail without newels. The rear entrance features a six-fielded-panel door and an inner entrance with a radial-bar fanlight above a half-glazed door.