THE BROOKHOUSE

The Brookhouse, Smithy Lane, Knighton, Market Drayton, TF9 4HP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377588
Date first listed:: 14-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THE BROOKHOUSE
Statutory Address:: The Brookhouse, Smithy Lane, Knighton, Market Drayton, TF9 4HP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1377588
Date first listed:: 14-May-1985
List Entry Name:: THE BROOKHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: The Brookhouse, Smithy Lane, Knighton, Market Drayton, TF9 4HP

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Brookhouse, Smithy Lane, Knighton, Market Drayton, TF9 4HP

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:: Loggerheads
National Grid Reference:: SJ7283140379

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/04/2020

SJ 73 SW LOGGERHEADS C.P SMITHY LANE Knighton 4/131 The Brookhouse II Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C16 or early C17, partially remodelled c.1700 with later additions and alterations; dismantled and removed from its original site during the 1970's, the house is in the process of being re-erected in its present location (in a disused railway cutting) at the time of re-survey (1984). Timber framed on dressed and coursed sandstone plinth with mid-C19 purplish-brown brick cladding to rear, porch also of sandstone; plain tiled roof. Originally a four-bay partly open hall of longhouse type with an unheated storage bay or granary at the lower (formerly east) end, approached by external lateral steps to rear; the eastern middle bay was floored over in late C17 and a double stack inserted at its west end, replacing an existing dual firehood which had heated both the eastern and western middle bays; c.1700 an external stone stack was built against the gable end of the western bay (also formerly unheated). One storey and attic; cellar. Framing: double-pegged close studding with single cross rail and short tension braces; jettied to right-hand gable end with herringbone decoration. At time of re-survey (1984) three windows to ground floor and three gabled eaves dormers (that to right-hand middle bay larger than other two), as left-hand- former storage bay has yet to be re-erected, all two-light late C20 latticed casements. Entrance to left through gabled stone porch with datestone 1636 over door; brown brick ridge VA stack with capping immediately to right. Two partly exposed wall posts to brick-clad rear. Interior: under reconstruction at time of re-survey (1984), but timber frame (including close studding of original firehood) exposed, several C17 plank and muntin doors; the cellar, under right-hand bay and lit by a four-light mullioned window at ground level, incorporates stonework from the C13 Cistercian Abbey of Hulton, close to the house's original site at Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent (note the mason's marks). Roof of Queen- strut type, but with two collars and two tiers of windbraces. It should be noted that in the course of re-erection, the building's axis has been changed so that east has become west et cetera.

Listing NGR: SJ7283140379

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Legacy System number:: 362613
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 201

Legal

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