Brook House

Brook House is a house with origins in the 17th century, though it was significantly refronted in the mid-18th century, with 20th-century alterations and additions. The front is limestone ashlar, while the rear and left return are of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and the roof is slate with raised coped verges and gable stacks. The rear of the west block has double Roman tiles, and is rendered.

The symmetrical front is in a classical style. It has two stories and three windows, all sash windows with voussoirs and keystones. The central first-floor window is within a moulded architrave with a triple projecting keystone. A central Tuscan porch with an open pediment contains a six-panelled door with a fanlight and radial glazing bars. The house has a plinth, quoin strips, a string below the window cills of the first floor, a moulded string below the cornice, a parapet and coping.

To the right of the 17th-century core is a lower, two-story block in rubble. At ground floor, it features a small square window with a moulded surround. There is a 20th-century door at cellar level, with a hood mould and relieving arch, as well as a three-light casement with stone ovolo mullions, a hood mould and relieving arch. A small, square blocked opening sits to the left, alongside a 20th-century dormer. A lower block set back to the left, in rubble, has 20th-century doors and windows, and a greenhouse is attached to the front.

The left and right returns of the main house have exposed quoins and small 20th-century attic windows. The right return of the block to the right features a 20th-century three-light casement at lower ground floor, a two-light casement with an ovolo mullion and hood mould, ground floor three-light and two-light casements with ovolo mullions and hood moulds, a relieving arch to the three-light window, and a similar two-light casement at attic level. This wing forms an L-plan with the main house.

The rear of the main house has a roof that slopes down to a lower level than at the front to accommodate the ground’s slope. Various windows are present, including a central round-headed window under the eaves, lighting the stair, with glazing bars. A 20th-century dormer is on the right. There are a two-light casement with chamfered mullions at ground and first floor of differing sizes, a central cellar door, a two-light casement with an ovolo mullion, and a first-floor, right-hand two-light casement with a wide ovolo mullion and chamfered reveal. The rear of the wing to the left has a four-pane casement in a moulded surround with a hood mould, a lean-to with a stable door and a loading door, a four-pane window at ground floor, and two further small lean-tos. The rear of the block to the right has a 20th-century door and a bow window. The interior is not accessible.