The Brook House
THE BROOK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081206
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROOK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1081206
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BROOK HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROOK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Himbleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94490 58389
Details
HIMBLETON CP HIMBLETON SO 95 NW 6/155 (19/5) The Brook House (formerly listed as 29.12.52 Himbleton House) - II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 with mid-C19 alterations; restored 1933. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on lias limestone rubble base; plain tiled roofs. Originally a hall and cross-wing plan; hall of two framed bays aligned north/south with external sandstone ashlar chimney at rear having a chamfered plinth and a pair of star-shaped stacks to its south elevation; this was enclosed in 1933 by the addition of two further framed bays continuing the main roof ridge with a gable-end external chimney similar to the hall chimney; large gables were added to front and rear of the original hall and the addition to flank the now centrally- positioned cross-wing. Two storeys and attic with decorated bargeboards. Framing: four panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight braces across upper corners and collar and tie-beam trusses with two collars, close-set studding to lower collar, two struts above and concave V-strut in apex; cross-wing attic storey is jettied to west on richly carved consoles. West elevation: wood-mullioned windows with leaded casements throughout; original hall has two ground- and first-floor 4-light windows and a first- floor 3-light window; cross-wing gable end has a 3-light and a 4-light window on both floors and the addition to right has a 4-light and a 5-light ground-floor window, three 2-light and one 3-light first-floor windows. Main entrance in timber-framed gabled porch adjoining at outshut to the rear of the north bay; entrance has moulded architrave, flanking carved Ionic half-columns and a C17 door. Interior: original part noted as having stop- chamfered main beams, panelled ground-floor rooms incorporating some C17 work and a staircase with turned balusters. C19 and C20 rear additions include ogee-arched doorway, possibly late medieval in origin. Lead rain- water goods have cable mouldings and are dated 1760. (VCH 3 (ii), p 391).
Listing NGR: SO9449058389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 147831
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 391
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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