Brook Farmhouse And Attached Stable

Brook Farmhouse and attached stable is a 17th-century farmhouse, now a house, with 20th-century alterations and additions, located on Westerleigh Road in Westerleigh. The farmhouse is constructed of pennant rubble with limestone dressings, featuring prominent long and short quoins to the porch. It has a double Roman tiled roof with pennant and limestone gable stacks, and a pantiled roof to the attached stable. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan with a symmetrical front elevation and is two and a half storeys high with three windows. The ground floor features two reconstructed stone 3-light casements. A central two-storey gabled porch has small sidelights and a 20th-century door within a moulded limestone surround. The first floor has two 2-light casements with ovolo mullions and hood moulds. The house has two gables rising to ridge height, each containing a similar 2-light casement with a dripstone. Attached to the right is a one-and-a-half-storey former stable with a hipped pantiled roof, built around the corner of the house. It has a stable door with a chamfered timber lintel on the inner side, and a single-storey addition to the front. The left return has a door with a timber lintel and a 2-light 20th-century window at the first floor. A two-storey rear wing has 2-light 20th-century windows to both the ground and first floors. The rear elevation has all 20th-century windows and doors. A rear wing has a ground floor 4-light window and a first-floor 3-light window. The left side of the wing has one 3-light window at ground floor and two at first floor. A single-storey extension to the rear of the house features a 4-light window, a door, a first-floor 3-light window, and an attic 2-light window. The gable end of the stable on the left has a ground floor 3-light window, a 2-light window, and a slit window above. The interior was not inspected.