Brook House
Brook House, Makeney Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389541
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- Brook House, Makeney Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389541
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Brook House, Makeney Road
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, Makeney Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 36143 45115
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 July 2025 to correct a typo in the address and to reformat the text to current standards
1038/0/10005
HOLBROOK
MAKENEY ROAD
Brook House
09-OCT-01
II
Residential care home, formerly convalescent home. 1899, with minor C20 alterations. By Hunter and Woodhouse, architects ,for George Herbert Strutt to commemorate his wife, Dame Adela Strutt. Regularly-coursed squared gritstone, with ashlar gritstone dressings, and imitation half-timbered detailing. Tall side-wall and off-ridge chimneys and a Welsh slate roof covering.
PLAN: T-shaped plan with attached ancillary buildings to the rear.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical two storey front elevation of nine bays with central entrance porch and tower and advanced end crosswings. Main doorway with half-glazed door with flanking lights and multi-pane overlight, below moulded segmental arch with hoodmould. Shallow parapet with central gablet carries the inscription 'DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY 1899', and, within gablet , a carved panel with inscription 'CONVALESCENT HOME '. Set back from the entrance porch , a transomed two-light mullion window below a gablet with flanking minature pilasters which enclose a carved panel with the inscription ' IN MEMORIAM EDITH ADELA STRUTT ' Above this, a roughcast clock tower with clerestorey lights below a shallow pyramidal roof with tall metal weathervane. Flanking the tower are three bay ranges with sash windows arranged 1:2:1 and advanced end gables with four-light transomed mullion windows to the ground floor, three light windows to the first floor within roughcast walling , and gables with mock half-timbering and bargeboards. Linking the entrance and the crosswings are arcades with shallow lean-to roofs supported by moulded columns. Rear elevation with multiple contemporary ancillary wings, mostly single storeyed, and some with glazed lanterns, which housed the service facilities for the convalescent home, including a laundry.
INTERIOR: Not inspected, but believed to retain features of interest including mosaic floors laid by craftmen from Italy.
HISTORY: The convalescent home was built for the Derby Infirmary with funds provided by George Herbert Strutt. It replaced an earlier home, although the original plan was to extend this building. The home was designed to house 32 patients and was officially opened on the 13th November 1899.
A little- altered , purpose- built convalescent home of 1899, built to commemorate the wife of its patron, Mr Herbert Strutt. The Strutt family developed the pioneering mill communities of Belper and Milford, and were noted for the ongoing and often innovative provision made for the housing, the physical and spiritual health and the education of the workforce and their families.
Listing NGR: SK3614345115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488227
- 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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