Brockley Hall Farmhouse

Brockley Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely started as a bastle house, dating from the 16th century, with records indicating its existence in 1579. It was restored and refronted in 1666 by Thomas Wharton and underwent further restoration in 1858.

The building features random rubble stonework, particularly large stones at the rear, with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It is one room deep and three rooms long, with irregular openings, and has two storeys with four windows.

On the ground floor, there are five bays. The doorway in the fourth bay has a roll-moulded Tudor-arched surround with a finely hollow-chamfered outer order that steps above the arch. The lintel, dated 1666, displays a central shield with an 'M' surrounded by foliage, and flanking letters 'T W' for Thomas Wharton, topped with a hoodmould featuring scrolled stops. Above this is a square panel inscribed with an 'R'. In the second bay, there is a 19th-century doorway from 1858 with a chamfered alternating-block surround. The windows are 19th-century two-light double-chamfered mullioned windows. The gabled roof has flat coping and tall corniced end and ridge stacks with two conjoined shafts.

To the left, there is a single-storey 19th-century addition that includes a boarded and battened door and a small four-pane casement window.

Inside, the rear wall, right end wall, and internal cross wall are approximately 40 inches thick, indicating the structure of the 16th-century house. Another wall of similar thickness continues to the left on the ground floor, suggesting a single-storey addition to the original house. There are also old oak beams present.