Brook Cottage

Brook Cottage is a house with origins in the 17th century, likely remodelled in the mid-to-late 18th century for the Carter Estate, with later additions to the rear. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, colour-washed, and has brick stacks and a rear wing of brick. The roof is tiled with pantiles. The house is built in a Gothick style.

The plan originally comprised two rooms with a central entrance hall, later extended by a rear wing. It is a single storey with an attic. The front elevation has two windows, with quoins present. A half-glazed panelled door sits beneath an open porch supported by chamfered square columns, carrying a chamfered lintel. Above is a projecting gabled first-floor half-dormer containing a triangular-headed two-light casement in a chamfered reveal with a hood-mould. Similar, larger ground-floor windows also feature blind cross-shaped arrow slits above. A brick gable on the left side has stepped brick coping, while the roof is hipped to the right and features projecting end stacks.

The interior retains a beamed ceiling. The building is described in N Pevsner and J Harris’s The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, page 340.