BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE

BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE, KING STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160385
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE, KING STREET

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Date:: 2002-09-24
Reference:: IOE01/07020/01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160385
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE, KING STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROOK HOUSE FARM HOUSE, KING STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Davenham
National Grid Reference:: SJ 69126 69782

Details

WHATCROFT C.P. KING STREET SJ 66 NE 4/27 Brook House Farm House II Farmhouse of late C17 origins but early C19 appearance. Red brick in English Garden Wall Bond with slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. A 2-storey, 2-bay rear wing (north-east) completes an "L" shaped plan. 2-course deep brick bands above ground floor and first floor windows. The centre bay is set forward as a two storey gabled porch, open fronted with side seats. A six panel door, with external architraves to the frame, is in line with the front wall of the house. 3-light flush casements with weathered terracotta sills and flat skewback arches, but the first floor level window in the porch projection is only 2-light. The porch roof is of shaped slates. Planted timbers with plaster infilling to gables also barge boards and finials and gable-end stacks. On west side a framed, ledged and battened door under slated pitched hood supported by shaped brackets. Interior: Six-panel doors. Bevelled beams, some cased in front of house. Dogleg staircase with heavy handrail, twisted oak balusters and panelled soffite. At first floor level there are bevelled beams and exposed joists and six-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SJ6912669782

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Legacy System number:: 57208
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.