Numbers 1 And 2 Brook Cottage

The building comprises two houses, originally a single dwelling, with a core dating back to the 14th or 15th century. It was remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries, with later additions and alterations. The building is primarily timber frame, partially constructed using cruck framing, set on a limestone plinth. The right gable end is of limestone rubble, and the roof is slate. The original layout likely consisted of a 4-bay open-hall house, which was later floored over. A stack was inserted and extended in the 17th century, with the eaves raised during the 18th century. The front elevation has 6 casement windows directly below the eaves, and 2 on each side of a roughly central, half-glazed door, all under a contemporary gabled hood. A prominent, rendered octagonal brick ridge stack has concave sides, a dripstone, and capping, acting as a baffle entry; the capstone is a mid-20th century addition. A smaller red brick stack is located immediately behind the ridge to the right. The former roofline is visible on the right gable end.

Inside No. 1 (the left part), fragments of the timber frame are visible, including in a wide, single-bay C17 addition to the rear. The left ground-floor room features a timber frame with square panels, a deep-chamfered cross beam with heavy joists, and a partly infilled inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. An oak winder staircase is to the right of the fireplace. The first floor has wide-boarded oak floorboards and a chamfered cruck blade with remains of arch-bracing visible in a room behind and to the right of the stack (the bathroom). The apex of this cruck blade is not visible in the roof space, it appears to be plastered over and truncated, but part of the corresponding blade is visible at the front. There is apparently another cruck truss to the left of the large, plastered-over stack, and possibly also in No. 2.

No. 2 was not inspected, but the left ground-floor room contains two chamfered spine beams with heavy joists and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel. The right room (now divided) has two chamfered spine beams and heavy joists.