Brook House

Brook House is a house dating from the 1830s, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of stone rubble, with some areas whitewashed and clad in slate hanging; the ground floor front is stuccoed. The low-pitched hipped slate roof has paved brackets to the deep eaves and moulded cast-iron gutters marked with lion heads. There are two rendered axial chimney stacks with octagonal moulded chimney pots, although the left-hand chimney pots have been removed.

The house has a double-depth, almost square plan, with two main front rooms and a wide central entrance hall extending the full depth of the building, containing the staircase at the rear. Smaller service rooms are located behind the right-hand room, likely with a kitchen behind the left-hand room, connected by a narrow service wing and outhouses projecting at the rear of the kitchen. A single-storey wing was added to the right side in the early 20th century, and a bay window was added to the left side, enlarging the front left room.

The symmetrical front elevation has two bays on either side of a central bay, with the outer windows spaced closer together. The first floor has five original 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor features four tall French casements with glazing bars and top lights. The central doorway has an original six-panel door flanked by thin wooden pilasters and side lights, panelled below, and a wide rectangular fanlight with diagonally crossed glazing bars above. A verandah with a felt-clad tented roof, supported by six thin iron posts with wooden trellis spirals, runs across the entire ground floor. The left-hand return has three first-floor 12-pane sash windows and the 20th-century single-storey wing. The rear elevation features an asymmetrical arrangement of 12-pane sashes, with a larger 15-pane stair sash to the left of centre. The narrow service wing to the right has a lower roof line, a sash window, and a plank door to the outhouse.

Internally, the original plan remains intact, and much of the internal joinery survives, including moulded plaster ceiling cornices. However, the original fireplaces in the two front rooms have been replaced with 20th-century Adam-style fireplaces, and the original staircase has been replaced by a 20th-century staircase with a Chippendale-style balustrade and square newels. The first floor was not inspected.