Brook End And Attached Walls And Terrace

Brook End is a house with attached stable range and walls, built in 1909 by CFA Voysey for the Misses Knight of Barrells Hall. The house is constructed of roughcast with sandstone ashlar and brick dressings, featuring a steeply pitched slate roof with brick end stacks, including a stack set on the roof's slope and a cross-axial stack, all topped with tall pots. The overall plan is three-unit in design.

The exterior is single-storey with an attic, exhibiting a four-window front. The entrance is located in a canted projection on the right-hand side of the building’s centre. This section boasts an open gabled brick porch with brick piers supporting an ashlar pointed arch, incorporating bands and a lozenge bearing initials. A plank door, complete with strap hinges, provides access. Flush-faced mullioned windows are arranged throughout: a three-light window flanks a pair of four-light windows to the left of the porch, which itself has side lights, while a three-light window sits at the right end. Gabled roof dormers, each with a four-light casement, are attached above. All windows have leaded glazing.

The left return features a lean-to outshut beneath two three-light windows under a drip-course, with a drip-course extending to the gable. An attached stable range with a hipped roof and stack is also present. Two coach entrances are defined by paired plank doors with strap hinges, while a similar stable door to the left is flanked by two-light mullioned windows. Another entrance, featuring a matching door to the right end, leads to a through passage running alongside the outshut, which provides an entrance to the main house.

The right return showcases a canted conservatory projecting between two flat-roofed three-light bay windows, with two further two-light windows positioned above. The rear elevation displays a catslide outshut with a gable above a three-light transomed window.

The interior, which has not been inspected, is believed to retain Voysey fittings, including an octagonal library and dining room, and the conservatory.

Subsidiary features include a wall attached to the outshut. This wall projects, incorporating a round-arched gateway, and then returns across the front of the stable range. It is punctuated by paired plank gates under the archway. A later garage, with a swept roof and an entrance featuring paired doors within a front gable, is also incorporated. A similar wall, featuring an arched gateway, connects to the other end of the house, extending around three sides of a garden to the right of the house. A terrace, constructed with rubble walling and featuring steps with ball finials, connects the two walls and the porch.