Description

BAKEWELL

SK2268 COOMBS ROAD
831-1/5/87 (North East side)
07/01/70 The Brooklands including service
range and linking wall
(Formerly Listed as:
COOMBS ROAD
(North East side)
Brooklands (The Pentecostal Eventide
Home))
(Formerly Listed as:
COOMBS ROAD
(North East side)
Cottage adjoining Brooklands)

GV II

House, now residential home for the elderly. Late C18, altered
C19 and with C20 addition. Coursed sandstone, partly stuccoed;
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3x5-window ranges with single-storey
porch and with 2-storey, one-bay side wing adjoined by lower
L-shaped service range set around a small yard.
Garden front (right return): raised quoins; wedge lintels;
plinth now returned beneath tall 2/2 sashes. First floor: band
and sill band to 2/2 sashes, the central window with
architrave and cornice on consoles. Second floor: 2 casements
and 3 3/3 sashes with projecting sills, central window with
architrave. Cornice and blocking course form parapet to hipped
roof with rolled-lead ridges and ashlar end stacks.
Entrance front: 3-window range. Chamfered quoins to ashlar
porch having part-glazed door flanked by mullions and side
lights; cornice and blocking course to flat roof. Taller
projection on left has tripartite sash (arranged 1/1:2/2:1/1)
with consoles to the lintel. 6/6 and 3/3 sashes to main wall
above; bay 3 is blind. Side wing on left: 8/8 and 6/6 sashes
and band beneath stepped parapet.
Service wing to far left: convex 2-storey end wall with coal
cellar hatch beneath two 6/3 sashes; coped parapet with ashlar
stack set back on left. Coped wall with gateway links to main
house and screens a small inner yard surrounded on 2 sides by
lean-tos against an L-shaped outer wall.
INTERIOR: not fully inspected. Original staircases remain.
House and part of rear service wing (formerly addressed as
Cottage adjoining Brooklands) was first listed 20/05/74.

Listing NGR: SK2251168527

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538374

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)