Brooke House is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Office.
Brooke House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-turret-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE DAM STREET 1094-1/5/90 (North East side) 05/02/52 No.24 Brooke House
GV II
House, now office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Plain brick parapet with cornice. Entrance has doorcase with panelled pilasters, and bracketed cornice, blind fanlight with Y-tracery over half-glazed door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor over 6-pane sashes; louvred shutters to 1st floor windows. Ashlar plaque above entrance, placed here by the antiquarian Richard Greene in the C18, records the site of the death of Lord Brooke, Parliamentary commander in the Civil War, who was shot during the 1st siege of the Close, 2nd March 1643. INTERIOR: front room has segmental-headed recess; dogleg staircase to rear with stick balusters, wreathed handrail and no newels; rear entrance has 6-fielded-panel door and inner entrance with radial-bar fanlight over half-glazed door. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.169).
Listing NGR: SK1170509678
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