Brook House With Attached Walls And Outbuildings

Brook House is an early 18th-century house that was refronted around 1830 and extended in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, with later white brick detailing, and has slate roofs. The original facade is likely on the left end of the building and features a recessed architraved entrance with a fielded six-panelled door, a Tuscan porch with fluted columns, and recessed sash windows with gauged brick flat arches and stone sills. Boxed eaves are present. Internal end stacks are topped with coped gable end parapets.

The right return side exhibits early 18th-century Flemish bond red brickwork, with three ground-floor and one first-floor 20th-century glazing bar sashes, two plat bands, and shaped gables featuring lower convex curves and steps up to upper concave curves. A pedimental head is visible to the rear of an end stack, with a rebuilt front. A moulded kneeler is on the rear, and a small coped gable disguises a central valley.

A mid to late 19th-century two-bay addition is attached to the front left, set back slightly. This has one ground-floor and two first-floor glazing bar sashes, a hipped roof and a canted bay with French windows on the ground floor. A first-floor blind window is also present, alongside an internal stack to the rear. The left return behind this addition displays early 18th-century red brick with a vertical bullseye window opening, French windows, and a first-floor sash.

The rear left side has moulded kneelers to a coped gable parapet, an internal stack, and a further 19th-century bay with red brick and sashes, under a hipped roof. The rear is rendered with 20th-century quoining. A four-light casement is located to the rear. The rear right has an offset plinth, a boarded door, a two-light casement with segmental heads, and a first-floor glazing bar sash.

Inside, a vertical bullseye window opening is visible to the right of the presumed original facade, and there is early 19th-century staircase. The roof is a staggered tenoned purlin roof with cambered collars to the principals.

Attached to the rear are red brick walls enclosing an early 19th-century service yard, approximately two to three metres high, with rounded coping, doorway openings, and a gateway flanked by piers with pyramidal stone caps. A stable block is located to the rear left, built in timber frame with a plastered interior and a hipped pantiled roof. It features double coach doors to the right and a boarded door to the centre, flanked by segmental-headed three-light casements. To the rear right, a wall encloses a small garden, with a short length of crinkle-crankle walling towards the drive. Within the garden is an internal brick and flint shed with a hipped tiled roof. Most of the walls and outbuildings are situated within Rickinghall Superior Civil Parish.