Brooks House, Brooks Road, Cardross

Brooks House, located on Brooks Road in Cardross, dates from around 1785 and has recently been refurbished. It is a two-storey house built over a raised basement, featuring a rectangular plan with three bays. The exterior is constructed of rubble with droved sandstone margins and dressings, and includes a band course, eaves band and cornice, base course, and quoins.

On the southwest (main) elevation, the three bays are symmetrically arranged. There are ashlar steps leading to a basement recess, which is topped with a modern cast-iron railing surrounding a columned and entablatured porch at the first floor. The entrance features a six-panelled, two-leaf door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight. The windows are also symmetrically placed in the flanking bays on both the basement and upper floor. Later additions include canted, slate-hung dormers on the outer right and left.

The northeast (rear) elevation has three bays, with a lower L-plan kitchen wing and a lean-to scullery that is accessed via a bridge over the basement recess. A large round-headed stair window is centrally located, with a gable that breaks the eaves, featuring ashlar coping and scrolled skewputts. Smaller windows flank the stair window, while there is a blind window at the ground outer left. To the outer right, there is an L-plan service block and an advanced piend-roofed block with a window at the centre. A lean-to block on the left has a door that breaks the eaves above it, with a window on the left return.

The southeast elevation features a broad gable with a blank basement. The windows are symmetrically arranged, with blind windows on the upper floor that were originally painted as twelve-pane sash and case windows.

The northwest elevation also has a gable, with a window at the basement outer left and symmetrically disposed windows. The upper floor windows are blind and were originally painted as twelve-pane sash and case windows. There is a lower kitchen block to the outer left, which includes a six-panelled door at the ground inner right, a window above with a lean-to roofline, and a bipartite window at the ground outer left, along with a stair leading to the basement level and plain cast-iron railings.

The house features twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, including a Y-tracery twelve-pane sash and case stair window. The roof is covered with grey slate and has lead flashings, with rendered and coped apex and ridge stacks.

The interior was not seen in 1994.