Site Event/Activity record ECH6657 - Proposed Development at Brook House Farm, Adlington, Cheshire East

A heritage assessment was undertaken in 2018 in support of proposed development at Brook House Farm, Adlington. Brook House Farm dates from the early sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is a Grade II Listed property. A late eighteenth/early nineteenth century block attached on the west side is not listed. Latterly converted to three dwellings, the property is now unoccupied and in a deteriorating state. The site also comprises two groups of late twentieth century agricultural buildings to the west and east of the farmhouse. The proposals for development comprise restoriation of the original farmhouse and its extension to form two dwellings, also conversion of two farm buildings into a further two dwellings. Historically, Brook House was a tenanted farm belonging to the Adlington Farm Estate. The house originated probably in the sixteenth century as an east-west, cruck-framed building. Two storey additions were added to the north and south, probably in the seventeenth century; these were probably originally timber-framed but later clad in stone and brick. The western protion of the cruck-range was obliterated by the addition of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century block. (1)