Brookvale, Shore Road, Cove

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, Italianate gabled villa. Ashlar, harled at gables and rear, ashlar margins and dressings on main elevation, sandstone on rear elevations; round-headed windows some with moulded arches and impost blocks. Base course; projecting bracketted eaves.

Southwest (main) elevation: asymmetrical facade. Broad gable advanced at penultimate bay to left, large bowed window, square columnar mullions and bold paired ashlar brackets supporting cast-iron balcony above; stepped tripartite window at 1st floor. Porch in re-entrant angle, pilastered and corniced surround to roll-moulded segmental-headed entrance, flush-panelled door, window on right return; largely glazed inner door with plate glass fanlight. Round-headed window above with segmental-headed canopy breaking eaves. Tripartite window to right at ground with bipartite window at 1st floor, gable over breaking eaves. Narrow bay to outer left, triple-arched window at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor, gable breaking eaves above. Cement-rendered rubble garden wall with pebble coping running to left.

Southeast elevation: harled and lined gable; bipartite window at ground to left, window to outer left, window at 1st floor off-centre to right.

Northeast (rear) elevation: asymmetrical elevation. Advanced, jerkin-headed bay in penultimate to left, lean-to conservatory at principal floor on ground floor scullery block, entrance to conservatory from within house and former stair window. Broad gable recessed to right, masked slightly by jerkin-head bay, windows symmetrically disposed at ground and 1st floor (8-pane sash and case window at 1st floor); narrow bay to outer right, door off-centre at ground, gabled dormerhead at 1st floor; lower bay to left, casement window off-centre to right.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof, lead flashings, coped sandstone ridge stacks, circular cans.

Interior: not seen 1993.

Stable block: to north of house. Harled and painted 2-storey, 4-bay block, now altered to domestic use. Projecting eaves, exposed rafters. Slightly advanced, taller piend-roofed block at centre; single storey, cement-rendered, flat-roofed block in re-entrant angle to outer left, various blocked openings; lower broad gable clasping outer right, narrow window at ground, round-headed window in gable, broad square opening to outer right.

Boundary wall and gatepiers: whinstone wall with harl-pointing, large quartz stone coping. Sqaure gatpiers with recessed panels, bracketted cornice with shallow acroterian cap (caps loose and no longer aligned with gatepiers)