Brook House
BROOK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383624
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383624
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK HOUSE
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashford Carbonel
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 52493 70645
Details
ASHFORD CARBONELL
SO5270 Brook House
482-1/15/38
12/11/54
GV II*
House. Dated 1677. Painted timber-frame on sandstone rubble
plinth, brick gable-end to rear. Plain-tile roof with serrated
ornamented bargeboards and fascias. Stone projecting eaves
stack (enclosed by Brook Cottage (qv)) with triple brick flues
with nibs. Brick projecting stack at rear gable-end. House of
2 framed bays with gable to street and single-bay extension to
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. West gable-end front
with one, probably C18, 3-light casement with leaded lights to
first floor, 2-light casement with leaded lights to attic, C20
2-light casement to ground floor, cellar opening of oak frame
with 2 chamfered mullions and ventilation slats. Weathering
boards over windows. Gable wall with square framing 4 panels
high with jowled posts, sill plate, girding beam, studs with
mid rails, 2 straight upper-level tension braces. Gable-end
truss of straight tie beam with central carving: '1677' and
'HL' or 'HE'. 4 vertical struts with mid rails, upper collar
with twin raking struts over.
Outshut to left: tile-roofed lean-to abutting stone stack with
square framing 3 panels deep with leaded-light casement.
South front: 2 bays of square framing similar to the gable-end
front. C18 casement window in each bay to first floor: 3-light
to left and 2-light to right, both with leaded lights.
Ground-floor C20 2-light casement to left, C18 2-light
casement with leaded lights to right, small casement to
extreme right. Boarded door to cellar with chamfered frame,
and framed cellar window opening.
Front range return gable: mostly obscured by rear extension.
C20 entrance door to left reached by flight of stone steps.
Lead flat-roofed canopy with timber boarded and coffered roof
set on thin timber Tuscan-style columns.
Rear extension bay to south wall: square framing 2 panels high
to each storey with full-height posts with rails. One 3-light
casement incorporating 2 leaded lights at both floors with
projecting window stay at first floor.
Rear extension north side wall with square framing as before.
Ground-level 2-light casement and C20 door.
INTERIOR: ground floor with chamfered bridging beams with
ogee-chamfer stops. First floor: chamfered bridging beams. C18
2-panel, 4-panel, and central-clasped boarded doors. Attic:
C17 boarded and ledged door. Single purlin roof with straight
wind braces below purlin.
Coupled rafter roof to rear bay.
Listing NGR: SO5249370645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484056
- 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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