Brook House Farmhouse

SJ 30 SW 5/118

WORTHEN CP BINWESTON Brook House Farmhouse

II Farmhouse. C17, extended and eaves raised late C18 with mid C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed with red brick infill, rebuilding and additions; slate roofs. Original house apparently of three or four framed bays, extended to left 1778 (date stone) and eaves raised simultaneously; shorter parallel range to south added mid C19. Two storeys.

Framing: fragmentary square panels, probably originally four from cill to wall plate with short straight tension braces; ground floor largely rebuilt in brick to north. Irregular fenestration; two C20 casements directly below eaves to left and similar opening to right; C19 segmental-headed casement to left of boarded door and wide C20 casement to right, cutting blocked segmental-headed opening; wide inserted recess to right. Brown brick ridge stack to left at junction with C18 addition. This addition has segmental-headed boarded door and date stone "1778" to gable end.

C19 range to south of two storeys with dentilled eaves cornice; three window front, segmental-headed casements with internal shutters. Central entrance; plain pilastered doorcase with bracketed flat hood, panelled reveals and six-panel door with rectangular barred overlight. Integral end stacks.

Interior: left ground-floor room has chamfered ceiling beam. Bay over recess has original Queen-strut truss to left and a truncated integral end stack to right.

Listing NGR: SJ3005904200