Brook Hall, 11 Creamery Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT52 2NE

Brook Hall is a symmetrical three-bay two-storey-over-basement detached farmhouse built around 1825 and located on the east side of Creamery Road east of Coleraine. The house was built for Samuel Boyse, as confirmed by a datestone on an adjoining outbuilding reading "ANNO DOMINI 1825 BOYSE", and appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1830 with its current L-shaped plan and rear outbuildings. According to the Ordnance Survey Memoirs, it was described as "a good family residence" with "very good" office houses, situated within grounds "surrounded by young trees which are tastefully laid down and are in a very healthy condition".

The building has a rectangular plan with a two-storey return to the rear. The pitched natural slate roof features angled ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks to the gables, with replacement cast-iron rainwater goods on projecting eaves. The walls are constructed of Ballycastle pebbledash on a cement rendered plinth with straight-channelled quoins. Windows throughout are replacement uPVC set in cement rendered surrounds with projecting concrete sills.

The principal elevation faces southwest and is five openings wide at each floor. The centrepiece of the ground floor is an elliptical-headed doorcase containing a replacement raised-and-fielded six-panel timber door flanked by replacement sidelights with concrete sills. Above the door is an original spider-web timber fanlight. The doorcase is set within a cement rendered surround with a keyblock and is approached via two concrete steps. The northwest gable contains a window to both first and ground floors on the left side. The northeast (rear) elevation has windows to the first and ground floors on the left and a bipartite multi-paned window to the ground floor right. At the far right, a modern two-storey return (detailed as the main house) is attached with a projecting gabled porch to the southeast elevation. The southeast gable is blank.

The house substantially retains its overall external character and original proportions. The building fell into serious disrepair by the late nineteenth century. Following succession through several families—including the Jameson and McDowell families—by 1933 it was described as an "old derelict house" with "walls only standing". The occupier at that time, John McAfee, undertook extensive restoration work bringing it to "A1 repair", and it was fitted with a hydraulic ram supplying water to a tank. The house was then lit by oil lamps, with accommodation comprising two receptions, a breakfast room, kitchen, scullery and two pantries on the ground floor, and five bedrooms, a bathroom and WC with modern fittings on the first floor. Hot and cold water was supplied to the scullery sink. The house was listed in 1977, and extensive renovations and alterations took place during the 1980s.

The setting is of considerable quality and adds significantly to the building's character. The house is situated within a mature landscaped site accessed via a tree-lined tarmacadamed drive from the road. The entrance is marked by a pair of circular tall pebbledash gate piers supporting original cast-iron gates, topped with round stone caps and large ball finials, adjoined by a low roughcast rendered entrance wall. A rear concrete yard is accessed via a second pair of circular pebbledash gate piers with round flat caps. To the northeast of the yard is a group of refurbished single-storey roughcast rendered outbuildings arranged either side of a central concrete pathway. All but the example to the southwest have pitched natural slate roofs with angled ridge tiles, plastic rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls and timber casement windows with mid-twentieth century timber-sheeted doors. The outbuilding to the southwest has a bowed corrugated tin roof. The block to the left of the pathway features a brick chimneystack and a carved datestone reading "ANNO DOMINI 1825 BOYSE". A brick pavior path to the east of the yard leads to two rubblestone gate piers with pointed caps supporting an original wrought-iron farmgate, which provides access to adjoining farmland. The lawned garden to the front is complemented by the presence of a cast-iron water pump inscribed "RANKIN & Co. BALLYMENA" in the yard. The entire composition—house, gate screen and water pump—forms part of the listing.