Brook Lodge Including Gates To North

Brook Lodge is a house resulting from a thorough remodelling around the early 19th century, with an extension added in the 20th century. It incorporates elements of a 17th-century house. The exterior is colourwashed rendered stone with a slate roof, hipped at the ends. It has a projecting brick chimney stack on the Silver Street elevation, and a further projecting stack on the garden (south) elevation. A substantial, probably 17th-century projecting stack remains at the rear, with a truncated shaft.

The original house likely had an L-shaped plan. The current plan has three rooms across, double in depth, with an entrance from Silver Street leading into a heated entrance hall, containing the staircase, an axial passage, and a service room to the rear. Two principal rooms face the garden. There is a kitchen at the rear.

The house is two storeys high. The Silver Street elevation has deep eaves supported by moulded brackets and three symmetrical bays to the left, plus a single window to the right. A panelled front door, with pilasters, frieze and cornice, is flanked by 12-pane sashes. There are three similar first-floor sashes, the one on the left being a dummy. A similar sash is located on the first floor above a 4-pane window. To the right of the main range is an entrance to a courtyard with a good pair of 19th-century iron carriage gates. A modern garden wall, with an old plinth to the south of the house, has a good early 19th-century iron gate.

Interior joinery from the 18th century remains, including the staircase. 19th-century fireplaces and cornices are also present. One 17th-century closed truss survives within the roof space; other roof timbers are 19th-century replacements.

The house is documented in 1758 and was likely the home of the Reverend John Reynell, Minister of the local Dissenters.