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’.

It was here that we cut and dressed the quoins for a door surround out of Dartmoor granite which was going to be built into a newly constructed tower complete with a spiral staircase.

Including a lintel.

Both the quoins and the lintel were cut and shaped to suit the radius of the new tower.

If you want to find out how we did this and more about this fascinating project click here.