Brook House

Brook House is a house dating from the mid-17th century, which was altered and enlarged in the mid-19th century. The original timber-frame structure has been encased in gault brick, with slate roofs. The house has brick stacks with linked flues and red brick banding. Its complex plan includes a main range (oriented east-west), a recessed service wing, and an attached coach house and stable wing.

The house is two storeys with an attic. The front elevation has a three-window range on the first floor, featuring 2/2 sash windows with stone arches. The central sash window has a round-arched head, set within a two-storey canted porch with a six-panel door in a recessed frame. Smaller windows are located in the angles of the porch. Further 2/2 sash windows are present in the gault brick service wing to the right. A moulded brick cornice runs along the front and left side, where more 2/2 sash windows, and a ground floor canted bay with a parapet and 1/1 sash windows are located. The rear elevation is gabled and of red brick, with additional sash windows, some round-arched, and a recessed part-glazed garden door. The coach house and stable wing are of red brick with a pantile roof. The coach house has large doors, and the adjoining stables include a metal angle manger, a timber box, and a brick floor. A hay loft is situated above.

The interior includes an entrance passage that passes through the base of the 17th-century stack, featuring a barrel vault. The passage and hall have patterned tile flooring. The hall contains a fine open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail and stick balusters. Other interior details include a moulded cornice and four- and six-panel doors. The drawing room to the left has a marble fireplace and shuttered window reveals. Panelled screen doors lead to an additional room behind. The dining room to the right has a chamfered bridging beam and an 18th-century corner cupboard brought from elsewhere in the house. The first floor of one part of the house displays close studded framing alongside chamfered bridging beams. Doors have HL hinges. The roof of this section of the house was plastered in the 17th century. The other part of the house has 19th-century details on the first floor, including a marble fireplace in a rear sitting room. The roof here is primarily 19th century but a mid-17th-century gable remains, suggesting that framing may be present in the lower part of this section as well.