Old Brooklands

Old Brooklands is a farmhouse, now a house, located in Calstock. It dates from the early to mid-17th century, with later 17th-century additions, and 18th-century and later alterations and additions.

The building is constructed of painted slatestone rubble with an asbestos slate roof with gable ends. It features gable end stacks and an axial stack with clustered rubble shaft and cornice. The original plan is a 3-room and through-passage plan. The hall is positioned to the right of the passage and is heated from an axial stack backing onto the passage. The inner room is at the end to the right, heated from a gable end stack to the right. The lower end room is to the left, heated from a gable end stack to the left. In the later 17th century, the hall bay was extended to the front. Probably at the same time, the first floor room over the hall was heated from a fireplace with an axial stack to the right, and a stair tower was added to the rear of the hall. A barn was probably added to the front of the lower end room in the 18th century. At the rear, a 2-storey outshut was added to the rear of the hall and the inner room, with a 2-room plan and a stack at the rear of the room behind the hall.

The exterior is 2 storeys with an asymmetrical 4-window front. All windows are either later 19th-century sashes or 20th-century casements. The passage has a 4-panelled door with timber lintel and a 16-pane sash in a raking dormer above. The hall to the right has a 16-pane sash at ground floor and a 2-light casement above. The gabled hall bay is 2-storey, with a 2-light casement with dripstone at ground floor and a 16-pane sash at first floor with timber lintel with chamfer and run-out stops. The inner room to the right is partly faced in painted slate-hanging, with a 2-light casement at ground floor and a 16-pane sash in a raking dormer at first floor. The right gable end is blind and built into the bank. The front barn to the left has a 4-pane light at first floor on the right side; at the left side there are two 20th-century windows at ground and first floor, large double doors through the full height, and a large window to the left. A small single storey lean-to is at the front gable end.

The left gable end of the house has a large external stack with shaped top. There is a small single light at ground floor to the right. To the left of the stack, ground and first floors have a 3-light chamfered granite window with 20th-century casements; the attic has a similar single chamfered granite window. These windows were partly renewed in the 20th century.

At the rear, the passage doorway is enclosed by a small open-fronted rubble porch with scantle slate roof and a 6-pane light, outer half-glazed door, and inner plank door. The porch also encloses a 2-light casement with iron stanchions and timber lintel, and a pump dated 1878, with cast iron handle and spout and a granite semicircular trough. At ground floor to the right is a 2-light chamfered granite window. First floor to the right has two 2-light chamfered granite windows. The 2-storey outshut to the rear of the hall and the inner room has an external stack with an oven at the base and a plank door inside the porch. The room to the rear of the inner room is rendered with a small single light at upper level. At the side is a 4-pane light at ground floor and a margin-glazed light at first floor.

The interior of the lower end room features chamfered beams and a granite fireplace with flat lintel and jambs, all roll-moulded, with scroll-carving at the base. The passage has roughly-hewn beams, and the rear doorway retains pintles from an early door. The hall has a granite paved floor and a granite fireplace with plain lintel and one chamfered jamb; it formerly had a settle by the door and its beams have been replaced. The stair tower contains a stair probably of 19th-century date, which divides to right and left. The inner room has a rebuilt fireplace and two recesses on the rear wall with wooden lintels.