Brook House and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 January 2002. House.

Brook House and railings

WRENN ID
brooding-frieze-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 January 2002
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Brook House is a two-storey house built in the 18th century, featuring white-painted stucco and a slate roof with deep flat eaves. The house has a rendered painted ridge stack, although the two end stacks are missing. The main range has three windows, while there is a two-window service range to the right, both under a single roof with matching window details. The windows are cambered-headed triple casements, with the window to the right of the main door enlarged to include an extra light on each side. The main door is centrally located in the three-window range and is panelled, set within a flat-roofed open porch supported by ornamental open-work iron piers. The service range features a cambered-headed board door in the second bay.

The left end wall is made of whitewashed rubble stone and has a small square loft window, possibly from an earlier period, along with a three-light window on the first floor to the right. The right end has a lean-to addition. At the rear, there is a shallow two-storey gabled block near the centre, with a cambered-headed window and a flat-headed window on the first floor, and a flat-headed window and a deep cambered-headed window below. To the left of the gabled section, there is one first-floor cambered-headed window above a doorway, flanked by cambered-headed windows on each side. A dormer is located above.

The front garden features iron railings attached to the northwest corner of the house, with urns on the standards, and a gateway with ornamental iron piers, an iron overthrow, and an iron gate.

Inside, the Georgian interior includes fielded-panelled doors, cupboards, and shutters. The main ground floor room has a large fireplace, and at the rear, there is a staircase with late Georgian turned newels and square thin balusters. The rear block contains an unusual broad brick vault. In the attic, the northeast end has pegged and lapped roof trusses, while the southwest end features collars that have been raised and reinforced with iron bolts.

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