Listed Building record MDO13819 - Brook House, Fontmell Magna

A one-storey house with attics built in the late sixteenth century with seventeenth and eighteenth-century additions, the north-east section being the older part of the building. Its walls are a mixture of timber framework and rubble, and the roof is thatched. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

BROOK HOUSE (86631692), of one storey with attics, has walls of timber-framework and of rubble, and thatched roofs. It is of late 16th-century origin with additions of the 17th and of the 18th century. <1>

Brook House. Grade II. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 24 (Monograph). SDO99.

(10) Brook House (86631692), of one storey with attics, has walls of timber-framework and of rubble, and thatched roofs. It is of late 16th-century origin with additions of the 17th and of the 18th century. In the L-shaped plan the N.E. range represents the original building and contains two rooms ; the N.W. room has a nine-panel ceiling formed by the intersection of four deeply-chamfered beams ' the same room has an open fireplace with a cambered timber bressummer. In the N.W. range, two 17th-century rooms have recently been combined by the removal of a partition ; they have chamfered ceiling beams, in part renewed. The room at the S.W. end of the N.W. range is of the 18th century.

<2> DOE (HHR), List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 18 (Scheduling record). SDO17666.

Jan 1985

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205994 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 8:06PM