Brookend House

CHASTLETON KITEBROOKEND SP 23 SW 1/38 Brookend House

GV II

Farmhouse. Late C18 reusing some earlier materials; minor later additions and alterations. Regularly coursed and dressed limestone rubble to sides and rear, ashlar to front; low-pitched hipped slate roof, in 3 sections to rear. 3 storeys. 3-window front; horned glazing bar sashes, tripartite to ground floor, of reduced proportions to second floor. Central entrance; fluted stone Doric porch with moulded entablature, 6-panel door with wreathed and radiating rectangular overlight. 3-bay returns, left with two reused 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows to first floor and one of 3 lights with concave moulding lighting cellar to right. Valley stacks to rear. Back wall has 3 windows on each floor, late C18 or C19 casements, some leaded, those to first floor and centre on ground floor with segmental heads. Late C19 canted bay window to ground floor left and lean-to porch to right with inverted scratch-dial dated "1660" reused next to door. Another scratch-dial reused as quoin to left corner. C19 single-storey service range attached to rear left corner (as viewed from front) has one 3-light and one 4-light mullion window reused to right wall; parts of another mullion window incorporated in tall 2-light window to left wall. Interior. Full inspection not possible at time of resurvey (July 1987) but stone-flagged central entrance hall has open-well staircase with stick balusters and carved open string. Panelled doors, window shutters (to front) and chamfered ceiling beams to ground-floor rooms. Kitchen (rear centre room) has triple arch to right wall with fireplace to centre. Well-preserved deserted village earthworks in field to south-east. [2479]

Listing NGR: SP2376331036