Description

NESTON

SJ2778 THE PARADE, Parkgate Village
794-1/4/100 (East side)
Brooke House

GV II

House. 1904. By W Aubrey Thomas for himself. Roughcast on
brick with stone dressings; sprocketed slate roofs with red
tile cresting and rendered coped stacks.
EXTERIOR. Entrance front (south) single storey and attic, 3
bays, the left bay cross-gabled with a full-height weathered
external stack. Central round-arched porch with recessed
6-panel bolection moulded door and rectangular overlight in a
moulded stone doorcase. In left side of porch, return arch has
a plain stone shield over the arch crown. To right of porch
are two 4/4-pane recessed sashes with cambered heads. Upper
floor windows are similar in flat-roofed half dormers.
Garden front (west) 2 storeys, 3 bays. In the centre are two
4/4 recessed sashes on both floors: to left, four similar
windows in 2-storey square bay; to right, five similar windows
in full-height semicircular bay.
Right return (east) 4-panel service door with single-storey
canted bay window to left and 4-light mullioned and transomed
window.
INTERIOR: hardwood 4-panel doors. Plaster dentil cornice in
the east room and festoon and egg and dart cornice in the
south-east room. Coved cornice and interlaced circle ceiling
decoration in west room. Egg and dart cornice and floral
ceiling decoration in the north-west room.
HISTORY: W Aubrey Thomas was the Architect of the Liver
Building, Liverpool.

Listing NGR: SJ2768478617

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667401

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)