BROOK HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383677
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: BROOK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROOK HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1383677
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: BROOK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOK HOUSE

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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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:: Bitterley
National Grid Reference:: SO5413877597

Details

SO57NW 482-1/5/92 15/03/74

BITTERLEY

MIDDLETON Brook House GV II*

Farmhouse, now farmhouse and house. Late C16 with early C18 extensions. MATERIALS: painted timber-frame on stone rubble plinth, brick on low brick plinth and with storey bands. Plain-tile roof, with C19 ornamental bargeboards and finials. 2 central ridge stacks, one stone with 3 brick star-shaped shafts linked with C18 cap, one plain brick. Projecting rendered stack with brick shaft to outshut to south. Integral C19 brick eaves stack to north. PLAN: H-shaped plan comprising 3-bay C16 framed range with 3-bay cross wing and 2-storey gabled outshut, and 2-bay brick C18 end extension range with C18 cross wing. The house occupies the framed cross wing with the farmhouse occupying the remainder. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, attic and cellar. North-east front has centre of main range split between framed range to left and brick range to right flanked by the respective cross wing gable-ends. 3 framed bays to left of square-framing 3 panels high underbuilt with C18 brick and masked to left by C19 tile-roofed brick lean-to housing the front door of the house. 2-light leaded casement over multi-pane ground-floor casement. Cross wing gable to far left of square framing 3 per storey with jettied ovolo-moulded bressumer and tension braces at each floor. End roof truss of high collar, twin raking struts, vertical struts with middle rails framing 3-light casement, straight ovolo-moulded tie beam. 3-light casement at first and ground floors, with the latter set on C16 cyma-moulded projecting sill set on carved console brackets. To right is C18 brick 2-storey 2-window range of 6/6 restored sashes, with one brick-blocked at ground floor. Cross wing gable at far right has two 6/6 sashes at first floor over two 2-light casements at ground floor and one C18 casement at attic level. Sashes with moulded cases, no sills, and brick arches throughout. Left return side (south-east): square framing 3 high per storey with 3-light casement over C20 French windows in framed original window positions. Right return side: farmhouse entrance door under hipped tiled canopy with lean-to masking ground floor to right. Rear to south-west: cross wing gable-end framing mirrors the front frame with rendered end truss and C19 sash at first-floor level. 3-bay framing to main range with square framing 3 per floor with 3-light casement at both floors in middle bay with canopied boarded door to left, right-hand bay masked by 2-storey outshut with square framing, twin raking-strut truss and 2-light casements. To left is C18 brick 2-storey 2-window range of sashes, 6/6 C18 at first floor and 8/8 and 6/6 at ground floor. Cross wing gable at far left has two 8/8 sashes at first floor, one reset, with 2-light C18 attic casement and C20 ground-floor door and window. INTERIOR: framed cross wing has deep-chamfered bridging and cross bridging beams, and ovolo-moulded posts at ground and first floor, square-framed cross partition, 3 boarded creased doors with moulded ledges, 3-bay single trenched-purlin roof with one open and one closed internal trusses with high collar, raking struts, and posts. Main range framed bays have deep-chamfered posts and beams, some ovolo-moulded, double trenched-purlin roof with 3 trusses: 2 open with high collar and vertical struts, one closed with struts with middle rails. C18 range has C17 dog-leg staircase remodelled C18, complete C18 panelled room at first floor, double trenched-purlin roof with truss of high collar and raking struts, all members chamfered. C18 cross wing has double trenched-purlin roof with 2 trusses of shouldered principals forming upper crucks with cruck spurs and high collar with low-level raking struts.

Listing NGR: SO5413877597

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Legacy System number:: 484109
Legacy System:: LBS

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