Brook House

Brook House is a detached house located on Church Street in Upwey, Weymouth. It dates from the 17th century and is mostly from the mid-18th century. The building features Flemish bond brickwork on the street front, with rubble or coursed rubble on other sides, and has a slate roof. The plan consists of a symmetrical central staircase hall with two deep gabled wings; the left wing is from the 18th century, while the right wing is part of the earlier 17th-century house.

The exterior has three storeys and an attic, with three windows. It includes three flat-roofed dormers with 2-light small-pane casements, a moulded cornice, and returns over slate cheeks, positioned above 12-pane sashes in plat band architraves with small projecting keystones. The central entrance features a 6-panel part-glazed door flanked by Doric half-columns with fluted necking, all beneath a frieze and cornice, and is accessed by a flight of stone steps with nosings. The building has alternating flush stone quoins, a slight cornice, a rendered blocking course, and coping. The left return gable has a 12-pane sash above a 20th-century casement, while the lower projecting wing contains 2-light casements. The rear gable and right return are plain rubble. The earlier wing has a brick stack and a steeply pitched roof, separated from the later wing by a narrow courtyard.

Inside, the house has been considerably modified, with some features in the 18th-century style. The entrance hall has a stone floor and trompe l'oeil painted fielded panelling. The dogleg staircase features thin turned balusters and a polished handrail. Various 6-panel doors are present, and the flanking rooms have window shutters with windows set in deep, full-height recesses. The right room has two 20th-century painted metal columns to modify its proportions. The fireplaces are said to be insertions, and the dentil cornices are from the late 20th century. The kitchen, located in the 17th-century wing, has a rough transverse beam with stopped chamfers. This building is an interesting example of the fashionable use of brick for the main facade in an area predominantly built of stone.