Brooklands Hall (School and Golf Academy)

Brooklands Hall, dating to the 1860s, is a substantial, picturesque building constructed of yellow brick with sandstone dressings and steeply pitched slate roofs. It was designed in an irregular, French style. The building is two storeys high, rising to three in the projecting entrance block. The entrance is marked by a raised porch, supported by late Romanesque style columns and moulded arches, featuring double panelled, part-glazed doors within a shouldered arch. A heavy, dentilled parapet tops a flat roof over the porch, above which are round arched windows framed by sandstone columns. A steeply half-hipped attic gable features twin windows surmounted by a family crest. All windows are fitted with plate glass.

The east front includes a prominent, half-octagonal bay with a hipped roof. Ground floor windows are set in shouldered, round-headed openings with carved tympana. A similar bay exists on the north front. The north front is plainer, with five window bays and a two-storey canted bay on the left. Originally, three small dormers were present in the roof.

To the west of the entrance block, a single-storey link connects to a billiard room, now used as a chapel, which is set forward and angled, further extending to the stable block. The stable block has a round central bay containing a two-centred carriageway, with diagonally boarded doors. The roof is half-hipped. The right side of the stable block features transomed windows with flush stone heads and sills, while the left side has been altered to accommodate four metal-framed windows, previously used as a laboratory. Slit vents are located at high level, and there are stacks to the centre and right gable end. The rear elevation of the stable block is of red brick. A roundel bearing the initials “H/C F 1867” is displayed on the right gable end, above the chapel roof.

The inner hall is accessed through a heavy Tuscan arcade, leading to a central stair hall extending to a roof light. A large, axial stone fireplace is located in this hall. The staircase features twisted balusters and a timber gallery supported by brackets rising from a heavy cornice. A room in the southeast corner has been retained as a parlour and contains a marble, Adam-style fireplace with Ionic columns and a carved central panel depicting cherubs. Fine plaster cornices are also present. "Rope" carved architraves frame the six-panelled doors. The dining room at the rear has a bolection moulded fireplace in streaked grey marble, with applied wood strips defining wall panelling and a dado. The headmaster's study features a fluted Adam-style fireplace with an original iron grate, complemented by a cornice decorated with fleurons and rope mouldings. The library has an eared chimneypiece, marble slips, a paterae frieze, and a fleuron-embellished cornice. The former billiard room is canted at both ends and includes an arched recess leading to a semi-domed apse; the half paneling and fireplace are currently obscured.