Building record 1127/1 - Brook Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56487 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century with addition of 1832. Timber framed with rendered infill and plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: at left is the gabled earlier portion which has a rendered ground floor with a three-light nineteenth century casement window imposed in a seventeenth century moulded wooden surround. The first floor is jettied and has a moulded bressumer and close studding with middle rail to the first floor with tension braces to the lower body. Above is a slightly jettied gable with moulded brackets at either side and close studding. Three-light casement windows to the first floor and attic. To the right of this is a recessed portion with one three-light ground floor window and above that a three-light first floor window. To right again is the early nineteenth century addition which has a twentieth century lean-to porch at left with a twentieth century door and above this a camber-headed datestone which bears the inscription J.W./MDCCCXXXII. To the ground floor at right of this are one three-light camber-headed window and one two-light window at far right. To the first floor are one three-light and two two-light casement windows. Dentilled cornice above. Ridge chimney stack at left. twentieth century addition at far right. The left hand side has rendered walling to the ground floor with French windows at left and one three-light casement window at right. To the right of this is a window of four blocked lights with moulded sill, mullions and transom. The first floor is jettied and has moulded brackets and a moulded bressumer supporting close-studding with a middle rail and tension braces to right, left and centre. One four-light nineteenth century casement window imposed at left in a seventeenth century wooden projecting surround. To the right is a similar window and immediately to the right of it a seventeenth century window with four blocked lights and moulded mullions and transom. Chimney stack at right of centre. The rear has close studding to the first floor of the seventeenth century wing at right. Interior: Small-framed walling and chamfered and ovolo-moulded ceiling.