Brooke Farmhouse
BROOKE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222576
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Brooke Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH TERRACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222576
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brooke Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH TERRACE
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:
- BROOKE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Handforth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86088 83602
Details
SJ 88 SE WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. CHURCH TERRACE Handforth
2/277 Brooke Farmhouse (formerly listed as Brooks Farmhouse.)
5/10/1979
II
Farmhouse: early C17 core, rewalling and additions dated 1714, later C18 alterations. Originally timber-framed now English garden wall bond orange brick on sandstone plinth and with sandstone quoins. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 3 brick chimneys. Originally 2-room plan now T-shaped. 2-storey, 3-bay south front. Right end bay projects under gable and has 3-light wooden casements, the lower one with remains of brick hood mould. In gable is original timber truss. Left end bay has 3-light casements, under cambered brick head below and a central 4-board door recessed behind very simple wooden architrave. West end has semi-circular headed date plaque reading BENEDICT BROOK 1714 and a carved badger. West front has remains of 2 ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows. Interior: Timber framed partition walls and bead-moulded ceiling beams. Some C18 3-board doors and 1 C17 with 2 recessed moulded panels. Roof structure intact and shows wind-braced lower purlins.
Listing NGR: SJ8608883602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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