Brockfield

Brockfield is a house built in 1804 for Benjamin Agar by Peter Atkinson Senior of York. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond and has a Westmorland slate roof. The house features a central-hallway entry with a service wing to the left. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with the lower two-storey service wing. The main front has an entrance bay that projects forward, featuring a pilastered porch with a double-leaf door beneath a cambered brick arch. Round-headed windows are set in round-arched recesses at the re-entrant angles. A moulded cornice of the porch supports a wrought-iron balcony in front of a Venetian window. The remaining windows are sashes with glazing bars, all under cambered brick arches, although there is a replacement cornice. Stacks rise through the pitch of the hipped roof.

On the garden front, there is a full-height three-window central bow with unequal sashes throughout, and a later single-storey garden room to the left. Inside, there is a cast-iron geometrical staircase leading to a circular hall, with a Greek key cornice and a foliate frieze, possibly from a slightly later date, above. The staircase is lit by a Venetian window with Ionic columns. In the drawing room, a pair of niches flanking the door are decorated with Adam style festoons, and there is an acanthus leaf cornice along with a delicate moulded plaster ceiling. The morning room features fluted architraves with paterae at the corners and a dado rail.