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

Description

House, white-painted stucco with slate roof and deep flat eaves. Rendered painted ridge stack, the two end stacks missing. Two storeys, three-window main range with two-window service range to right under single roof and with matching window detail. Windows are cambered-headed triple casements, the window to right of main door enlarged with extra light each side. Main door is central to 3-window range and is panelled in flat-roofed open porch with ornamental open-work iron piers. Service range has cambered-headed board door in second bay. Left end wall whitewashed rubble stone with small square loft window possibly surviving from earlier period, and 3-light to first floor right. Right end has lean-ton addition. Rear has shallow 2-storey gabled block near centre, and to right of this a cambered-headed window and a flat-headed window on first floor, with flat-headed window and deep cambered-headed window below. To the left of gabled section is one first floor cambered-headed window over a doorway with cambered-headed window each side. One dormer above. Front garden has iron railings attached to house NW corner with urns to standards and gateway with ornamental iron piers, iron overthrow and iron gate.

Georgian interior detail includes fielded-panelled doors, cupboards and shutters. Main ground floor room has large fireplace with, to rear, a stair with late Georgian turned newels and square thin balusters. The rear block has an unusual broad brick vault. Attic has pegged and lapped roof trusses at NE end and at SW end collars have been raised and reinforced with iron bolts.

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