Combrook House

Combrook House is a house dating probably to the 17th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was recorded as a school in the late 16th century and later served as a rectory in the 19th century.

The house is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with dressed stone to the right end, ironstone quoins and ashlar dressings. The steeply pitched roof is covered in old tile and fish-scale tile, with coped gables and brick end and ridge stacks featuring clustered, truncated shafts and 19th-century pots. The 3-unit plan is set into the slope of the ground, with a further unit to the left.

The front elevation is a 4-window range, with a short range to the right featuring a projecting gabled wing. The main range has brickwork to the ground floor on the right, with two courses of blue limestone near the eaves. A long porch, positioned to the left of centre (due to the ground slope), has a coped gable and a single-chamfered entrance with a 4-centred head, containing an inset plank door. To the left of the porch is a blocked recessed-chamfered window with a label mould, originally a 3-light window with a transom. Above it are two windows; one has a timber lintel over a 2-light casement, and the other has recessed chamfered reveals to a 3-light casement. To the right of the porch is a 19th-century brick lean-to outshut, with two windows above. One window is a 3-light casement, and the other is a 3-light recessed-chamfered mullioned window. Four gabled dormers are present, each with labels over 2-light pegged chamfered casements with iron opening casements. The range to the right has a wing with a swept-down roof, a pegged leaded light, an entrance to the left, and a 2-light casement to the right, all under timber lintels. The first-floor has a leaded light and a gabled dormer. The return on the left has a blocked tall 5-light recessed mullioned-and-transomed window with a label mould.

The rear garden front is a 5-window range, with quoins to the ground floor at the left end and fishscale bands to the roof. A single-storey wing with a single-pitch roof is present on the left. A central 2-storey gabled porch, with a coped gable and finial, contains a single-chamfered entrance with a 4-centred head and label mould to a plank door. The ground floor has a 19th-century canted bay window with a hipped tile roof and casements at each end. To the left of the porch is a 4-light mullioned window, with the central mullion removed and heads of lights blocked. To the right of the porch is a window with a 2-light casement. The first floor has recessed-chamfered mullioned windows under label moulds, of 3 lights to the porch and to the right, and smaller windows of 4 lights to the left. Four gabled dormers are present with 2-light small-paned casements. The range to the left has a first-floor window with a 2-light leaded casement with an iron opening casement and a gabled dormer.

The interior has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries and was believed to have been used as a school in the 17th century.