Brook Manor is a stunning Grade II listed 17th century Jacobean manor house situated on the outskirts of Buckfastleigh in Devon within the confines of Dartmoor National Park.

The house was originally built for Sir Richard Cabell (Cabel) in 1656 who was then the local Squire and by all accounts ‘a man of ill repute’. Local legend says that he often beat and abused his wife and one night she escaped his evil grasp and ran away across the moors whereas he followed her on horseback and murdered her along with her faithful dog. As the story goes the ghost of the dog haunted Cabell for the rest of his life. Sound familiar? It is thought that this tale gave Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the inspiration for the ‘Hound Of The Baskervilles’.

A new extension was built at the back of this manor house and part of the work involved us building a new chimney stack.

The stack was built and rendered in lime mortar to match in with other chimney stacks on the property. This was a fairly straight forward job to build this stack considering what else we had to build here and that involved building a tower, in stone, complete with a spiral staircase and if you want to read all about that, you can click here.