Brookhouse Cottage

BITTERLEY

SO57NW MIDDLETON 482-1/5/95 Brookhouse Cottage

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.2 AND 3 Brookhouse Cottages Middleton.

2 houses, now single house. C15 and C17. Timber-frame with painted rendered infill panels on brick and stone plinth. Rendered brick central ridge stack. 2-bay C17 range added to earlier, possibly C15, 3-bay range. EXTERIOR: single-storey and attic. South-east entrance side: C17 2-window range with square framing 3 panels high, with truss posts, girding beam, studs and middle rail, 4 casements and dormer, cellar entrance in plinth. 3-bay earlier range with square framing partly underbuilt with brick to left bay. Plain boarded entrance door under simple canopy, 2-light casement in left bay. Boarded door, dormer opening, large swept tension brace in central bay. End bay weatherboarded on all sides and with lower corrugated iron roof. Left gable return (south-west): square framing as before, restored with posts interrupting straight tie beam, roof truss with weatherboarding over collar. C20 tiled hipped-roofed bay window at ground floor, and 2-light attic casement. North-west rear side: 2-bay C17 range square-framed as for front with 2 tension braces per bay. 3 casements, one dormer with 2-light casement per bay. Earlier range is underbuilt in brick, with single 2-light casement, and single panel high timber framing above. INTERIOR: 3 full cruck trusses survive in the earlier range, the end truss now truncated at tie-beam level. Single purlin roof in later range.

Listing NGR: SO5422177564