Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW TOM HILL
652-1/2/176 (West side)
Brook House Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18 (pre-1746), incorporating C17 range to
rear and former dairy. Reddish-brown brick with Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. Central gabled
break-forward. Steps to central 6-panel, part-glazed door in
wooden doorcase with plain pilasters, frieze and hood. Outer
bays to ground and first floors have 8/8 sashes, first-floor
centre bay has 6/6 sash; second-floor outer bays have 4/4
sashes, centre bay has blind round-arched opening, all with
sills and flat arches of rubbed brick except to round-arched
opening. Left return has blind openings to front bay. Left end
stack. Roof hipped to front and with 2 gables to rear.
INTERIOR: has chamfered beams with run-out stops,
6-fielded-panel and 6-panel doors. 3 Victorian cast-iron
fireplaces. Thralls remain to dairy.
Farm buildings around the yard at Brook House Farm consist of
threshing barn (qv), pigsties (qv), cow house and pigeon house
(qv), stable (qv) and cart shed (qv), all form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1147271293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662513

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Recommended Books

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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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)