Description

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SZ38SE
1354-0/7/17

BRIGHSTONE
BROOK
Eastbrook, Southbrook, Northbrook, Westbrook, Brook House and The Old Coach House

(Formerly listed as Eastbrook, Southbrook, Northbrook, Westbrook, Little Quarters and The Old Coach House)

GV
II
Originally one house called Brook House, now subdivided into flats. The north west wing, namely Northbrook and Westbrook, and The Old Coach House are C18, altered C20, erected by the Bowerman family who held the manor from the C14 until 1792, altered and extended by Charles Seely, first Baronet, c1850.

North west wing is C18. Three storeys, mainly of stone rubble with some brickwork to second floor. Tiled roof hipped to one end. Three windows, mainly cambered twelve-pane casements and projecting stone chimneybreast. To the north west is The Old Coach house, also C18 altered in C20. Built of stone rubble with red brick dressings. Tiled roof with white brick chimneystack. Three C20 hipped dormers. Ground floor has two twelve-pane sashes with cambered surrounds and similar door. Two cross-shaped iron ties.

Attached to the south is Seely's c1850 extension, also in stone rubble. Two storeys; ten windows. Stone parapet with seven urns. Eight sashes with cambered heads and two round-headed sashes, the five windows to the right hand side being blacked out, with the building behind demolished in the 1950s. To the left hand side is an entrance arch and six pilasters. The garden front of Southbrook and Brook House has a projecting two storey right hand bay, small first floor bay to left with larger bay underneath and elaborate stone Italianate splayed porch with pilasters and round-headed arches. Southbrook has a c1850 stuccoed ceiling with urns, swags and floral motifs, a c1850 fireplace with tiled surround, console brackets and ovolo moulding and a c1850 dining room plastered ceiling with circular motifs and bay leafs.Eastbrook has three c1850 pelmets.

Garibaldi stayed here as a guest of Charles Seely in 1864 and there is a tradition that Italian workmen were employed on the ceilings and porch. One of the original Domesday manors.

Listing NGR: SZ3915484189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504362

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper