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943 houses, 1,155 to 9,008 square feet

The Brookshire family of plats covers Brookshire, North, Village, Pines, Estates, Lakes and Overlook, all inside Carmel corporate limits and all under one association and one golf course. Parcels with recorded floor area total 943. Construction runs from a single 1946 farmhouse through a continuous run from 1970 to 1989, with a final parcel in 1993, and the bulk of the stock dates from 1972 to 1985. Deeded lots run 0.13 to 4.38 acres with the great majority between 0.17 and 0.45.

Recorded floor area runs 1,155 to 9,008 square feet and is densest between about 1,500 and 4,000, which puts most of Brookshire well below the Carmel norm where 65.9% of single family parcels carry 3,000 square feet or more. Assessed values run $264,600 to $1,192,100 with the middle of the distinct value distribution near $431,000. The architecture is 1970s ranch, tri level and split level, early two story colonial, and 1970s contemporary with vertical siding and low pitched roofs.

Shallow depth, sliding doors, and a stair landing instead of a great room

The tall glass problem in Brookshire is a stair landing, not a great room. Two story great room walls belong to the 1990s and later, and this neighborhood predates that almost entirely. What it has instead is half flight landing windows on the tri levels and split levels, wide fixed picture windows flanked by narrow operables on the ranch fronts, and sliding patio doors to the rear that are close to universal for the era. Arched and palladian heads are essentially absent here; they arrived with the next generation of building.

Depth is the constraint on nearly every opening. 1970s construction leaves shallow jambs, and where a house has had units retrofitted at some point, one to two inches of width and a meaningful amount of flat depth at the stop have gone with it. Inside mount cannot be assumed anywhere in this neighborhood, and after 45 to 55 years of settling on Hamilton County clay, out of square openings are the expectation rather than the exception. Three point measurement here is mandatory, and the diagonal decides the mount.

What suits a Brookshire house

Two things drive the specification here. Shallow depth pushes a lot of openings to an outside mount, which is not a compromise so much as the correct answer in a settled house, and it happens to hide out of square openings at the same time. Mature canopy lowers the thermal urgency on most elevations, so the money goes into fit and operation rather than into the most aggressive solar fabric available. Fairway frontage is the exception and gets treated on its own terms.

Streets, landmarks and schools

Every street here is British or Arthurian, which is how residents describe where they live: Brookshire Parkway, Charing Cross, Canterbury, Lockerbie, King Arthur, Camelot, Yorkshire and Aldersgate. The neighborhood wraps Brookshire Golf Club between Gray Road and Hazel Dell, north of 116th Street, and people route out to Range Line and the Monon rather than to US 31. The course, the pool and the clubhouse are the community's center, and the course is public, which changes who is walking past a rear elevation.

What is verified about the association

Brookshire has an HOA, based at 12124 Brookshire Parkway, and it publishes neighborhood history and golf information publicly. What could not be verified from the public site is whether a standing architectural review committee approves exterior changes, because the governing documents sit behind the members' area. So we will tell you the association exists and leave the rest to your own documents. No published covenant text requiring a particular color or finish on window coverings was located here or anywhere else in Hamilton County, and we do not assert one. If your documents say something specific, bring it to the measure and the order gets written to match.

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