Eastbrook House

Eastbrook House is a detached house set in a large garden, built in the mid-19th century. It features rock-faced coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. This Italianate villa is set back from the street and has a low-pitched hipped front range with a gabled parallel rear range.

The exterior is two storeys high and the front facing Church Street has four bays. The third bay includes a porch that is brought forward and topped with a gable. The first floor has 4-pane sash windows, while the porch features an arched sash window within a moulded architrave. The ground floor has large 6-pane sash windows, which may have originally been 12-pane, set in plain architraves with a thin cornice. A six-panelled door with a plain fanlight is framed by a Gibbsian surround. The quoins are rusticated, and there is a plain sill band at the first floor level, along with deep eaves that are bracketed at the porch gable.

To the left, the rear range projects, and the house has four slender ridge stacks and one rear eaves stack. The shorter south front is similarly detailed, featuring a projecting gable on the right with paired arched lights beneath a flush relieving arch. There is also a flat-roofed square bay with a tripartite sash window set in plain channelled pilasters and slender Doric mullions, topped with a frieze and cornice. To the left, plain sashes are located on the first floor above deep 2-light casements with a transom that extends down to floor level. The east wall contains various sashes and lights, a low projecting hipped stair turret, and a full-height gabled projecting unit to the right.

The interior has not been inspected. Eastbrook House is a handsome building that has not been altered externally and occupies an important corner site.