Monument record 1500/1 - Brooke Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1222576 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: early seventeenth century core, re-walling and additions dated 1714, later eighteenth century alterations. Originally timber-framed now English garden wall bond orange brick on sandstone plinth and with sandstone quoins. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and three brick chimneys. Originally two-room plan now T-shaped. Two-storey, three-bay south front. Right end bay projects under gable and has three-light wooden casements, the lower one with remains of brick hood mould. In gable is original timber truss. Left end bay has three-light casements, under cambered brick head below and a central four-board door recessed behind very simple wooden architrave. West end has semi-circular headed date plaque reading BENEDICT BROOK 1714 and a carved badger. West front has remains of two ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned windows. Interior: Timber framed partition walls and bead-moulded ceiling beams. Some eighteenth century three-board doors and one with two recessed moulded panels. Roof structure intact and shows wind-braced lower purlins.