Brookside

Brookside is a building dating from the early 19th century, located on Archway Place. It is notable for being the site of the original waterworks, with part of one of the original pumps still found in the cellars. A plaque on the west wall reads "R P Waterworks erected 1738". The building has a principal front that faces east and features two storeys with four windows. It is finished in stucco and has long and short quoins, a wide eaves cornice, and a hipped slate roof. The windows are fitted with Venetian shutters and retain their glazing bars. The doorway is non-central, flanked by fluted half-columns and topped with a flat hood. Originally, there was a verandah across the entire ground floor supported by fluted columns, but this has been removed, and the columns have been re-erected in the garden. Inside, one ground floor room, likely the original hall accessed from the west, contains two Ionic columns that create a recess at its western end.