Brook House
BROOK HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233129
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09347/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233129
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK HOUSE, THE STREET
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:
- BROOK HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brook
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06718 44533
Details
TR 04 SE BROOK THE STREET (West Side)
4/63 Brook House GV II
House. C15 or earlier, extended and altered late C16. Timber framed plan clad with red brick and tile hung and weatherboarded to right return with plain tiled roof. Four framed bays, hall house plan (originally aisled) with cross-wing. Two storeys with wooden brackets to eaves with hipped roof with gablets and stack cluster to centre left, and stack to end right. Three wooden casements on first floor and 2 long ranges of casements on ground floor with single casement to right. Boarded door to centre left in hipped C20 porch with sidelights. Square porch on right return (formerly a separate cottage). Catslide outshot to rear. Interior evidence suggest original aisled hall, with early C15 jettied crosswing (Dragon beam survives) possible gabled, explaining wooden brackets to eaves. Hall tie-beam with decorative braces and mortice for crown-post. Re-roofed and made 2 storeys with continuous jetty. Late C16 (now underbuilt). Chamfered service doorway heads survive (See Traditional Kent Buildings, Vol. 5).
Listing NGR: TR0671344530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408369
- 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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