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

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)