Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551538

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings