Brook House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

OTTERTON FORE STREET (south side) Otterton SY 0885 7/169 Brook House GV II House, originally 2 houses. Late C18 - early C19. Plastered stone rubble and brick with some cob in places; brick outshots with slate roof.

It appears that this was originally a pair of contemporary 2-room plan cottages facing onto Fore Street to the north. Each has a central staircase and a single rear lateral stack. Continuous outshots across rear are probably secondary. Main block is 2 storeys.

Irregular 4-window front, but looks as though 2 first floor windows have been blocked to upset the original symmetrical arrangement. The left (eastern) former cottage still has the original 3-window arrangement around a central doorway. The doorway contains a later C18 - early C19 6-panel door, contemporary 12-pane sash directly above and both are flanked by 16-pane sashes. The right (western) cottage was apparently once the same but 2 of its first floor windows are gone. The right end corner is a broad curve from Fore Street to Maunders Hill. Plain deep eaves.

Roof abuts adjoining property to left and is hipped to right.

Interior not inspected.

Brook house is one of a number of attractive listed buildings along Otterton Fore Street.

Listing NGR: SY0807585240

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0364 IOE Records taken by M H Carter; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr M. H. Carter. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project