Brockhampton Park

Brockhampton Park is a former country house, now divided into flats, built between 1639 and 1642 by Paul Pert. The early core of the building, which forms the south-west corner, is dated and initialled P.P. 1641 on rainwater heads on the right-hand wall. The house has undergone substantial additions and alterations during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The main body of the house stands at two-and-a-half storeys with a triple gabled entrance front. The central and right-hand gables are those depicted in Kip's engraving of around 1710. Two additional gables were added to the left of the early core in the same style around 1835, though only one remains visible today. The main body was extended to the rear in the mid to late 19th century. A wing to the left of the main body has a rear section dated 1868 on drainpipe brackets, while its front, which incorporates a tower, is dated and initialled F.R. 1908 and was built by Colonel Fairfax Rhodes. A separate building, No. 22 at the far left, is probably from the early 18th century and appears in Kip's engraving.

The external walls are of ashlar with stone slate and concrete tile roof and stone chimney stacks. The upper floor is lit by three-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned casements with dripmoulds. Ground and first floor windows feature two and three-light casements with Gothic glazing, and there are dripmoulds over both ground and first floor windows, though some of the latter are now interrupted by later alterations. Central 19th-century part-glazed doors within a central projecting porch feature Tudor-arched openings on each side, a frieze of blind quatrefoils, and an embattlemented parapet with octagonal turrets at each corner. The three-storey extension of 1908 on the left incorporates a tower and features one, three and four-light stone-mullioned casements with transoms and Tudor-arched heads to each light. A rear wing follows similar style with three heraldic shields on its gables.

Ornamental features include several fine rainwater heads: a barley-twist downpipe with a beast's head on the south wall, and three ornate rainwater heads featuring scallop shell motifs and lion's head gargoyles on the east front. The roof includes an octagonal lantern dating from around 1835 to the left of the early core, saddleback coping, and castellations on the 1908 extension. Numerous tall chimneys feature skirtings, moulded cappings, and segmental stone shaft divisions at the top.

The interior contains several notable features. The entrance hall has a fine 19th-century Arts and Crafts style moulded plaster ceiling with a deep frieze of intertwined dog roses and circular roundels, each depicting a single plant set within a geometric border with intertwined foliate motif. The inner hall, lit by a lantern (now sealed off) with 19th-century stained glass, features decorated moulded square panels around the lantern opening. A section of moulded plasterwork with a foliate border remains to the left of the stairs off the outer hall. A 19th-century staircase in 17th-century style, with splat balusters, forms a gallery on one side of the inner hall. A barrel-vaulted cellar containing a well lies beneath the early core. Flat 3, within the mid-19th-century extension at the rear of the main body, has a highly ornate, deeply moulded ceiling with eclectic decorative motifs including a Corinthian-style cornice, ribs joining main geometric motifs decorated with vine and acorn motifs, and an Adam-style fireplace. Similar ceilings and fireplaces appear in other rooms.

The house has considerable historical significance. It passed from the Pert family to the Dodwells and was inherited in 1806 by three sisters, Judith and Patience Timbrell and Rebecca Lightbourne. It subsequently passed to William Morris and then to his son Walter Lawrence. In 1832 it passed to the Craven family, who retained ownership until the 1890s. In 1897 it was owned by Major Edward Green de Freville, and from 1906 to 1931 by Colonel Fairfax Rhodes and his wife. A print of the original house appears in Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire.