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Brook House

A Grade II Listed Building in Holbrook, Derbyshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0022 / 53°0'7"N

Longitude: -1.4629 / 1°27'46"W

OS Eastings: 436143

OS Northings: 345116

OS Grid: SK361451

Mapcode National: GBR 6CX.WG7

Mapcode Global: WHDGF.HSMV

Plus Code: 9C5W2G2P+VV

Entry Name: Brook House

Listing Date: 9 October 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1389541

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488227

ID on this website: 101389541

Location: Holbrook, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, DE56

County: Derbyshire

District: Amber Valley

Civil Parish: Holbrook

Built-Up Area: Belper

Traditional County: Derbyshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire

Church of England Parish: Holbrook St Michael

Church of England Diocese: Derby

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Description


HOLBROOK

1038/0/10005 MAKENEY ROAD
09-OCT-01 Brook House

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 2 storey front elevation of 9 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 2-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 3 bay ranges with sash windows arranged 1:2:1 and advanced end gables with 4-light transomed mullion windows to the ground floor, 3 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

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