Early Wing at Brook Hall
EARLY WING AT BROOK HALL, BROKERSWOOD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285019
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Early Wing at Brook Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EARLY WING AT BROOK HALL, BROKERSWOOD
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- Date:
- 2002-12-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/09450/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285019
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Early Wing at Brook Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EARLY WING AT BROOK HALL, BROKERSWOOD
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:
- EARLY WING AT BROOK HALL, BROKERSWOOD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heywood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8504753439
Details
HEYWOOD BROKERSWOOD ST 85 SE (east side) 4/180 Early wing at Brook Hall (formerly listed as Early wing at Brook House) 11.9.68 GV I Hall house, now farm outbuilding and wing of farmhouse. C15. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roof with coped verges. Eight bays. Two-storey, 5-window south front. Ground floor has three moulded pointed doorways with C20 planked doors and two 2-light square- headed windows with Tudor-arched lights and hoodmoulds. First floor has five 2-light windows with arched lights, three buttresses with offsets. Roof has axial square louvre with tiled pyramidal capping. Left return has diagonal buttress to left, plain buttress to right, blocked doorway to ground floor and blocked window to first floor with offset string course carried over. Rear has planked doors and blocked openings to ground floor, first floor has two windows with arched lights to left, pointed recessed openings to right with planked doors. House (q.v.) built up against east gable end. Interior has pointed chamfered niches to ground floor, blocked fireplaces, chamfered beams to ceiling. First floor has blocked beaded fireplace, 4 bays of an eight bay roof are exposed at west end; arch-braced collar trusses to main bays with collar trusses to half-bays, two tiers of purlins with curved windbracing and tension bracing to ridge. Probably built as a first floor hall house, reputedly for Robert Willoughby, created Baron de Broke by Henry VII in 1491. (V.C.H., Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)
Listing NGR: ST8505753457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
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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