9, Brockton

This is a house, likely dating from the 14th century, with significant alterations around 1600. Further changes occurred in the 19th century, including partial rebuilding, a re-facing with limestone rubble, and an addition to the right. The house is timber-framed and has a roughly L-shaped layout, originally featuring a probable open hall of two framed bays and a projecting gabled cross wing to the left.

The building is two storeys high. The exterior features a ridge stack, situated off-centre to the right, topped with a late 20th-century brick cap. A 19th-century semi-integral end stack is to the right of squared and coursed limestone with a red brick cap and an integral 19th-century lateral stack is located on the cross wing to the left. There are three windows on the front elevation, with 19th-century two-light metal casements. A boarded door is set within the angle of the cross wing to the left, accompanied by a 19th-century stone porch with a hipped slate roof. The cross wing's attic window is rendered and blocked. It also features a 19th-century metal cross window on the first floor and a 19th-century three-light metal casement on the ground floor.

Inside, the former open hall retains three smoke-blackened cruck trusses. The central truss has a continuous chamfer, arched braced collar with V-struts and wattle and daub panels above. The right-hand truss is missing its tie, collar, and apex structure of type B. The left-hand truss was not clearly visible during a survey in 1984. Although the roof was rebuilt and the eaves raised in the 19th century, original trenched purlins were re-used. A large stack, inserted around 1600, is located in the central bay. A chamfered cross beam ceiling of around 1600 is in the left-hand bay of the former open hall, and a probable 16th-century newel staircase is in the cross wing. The right-hand bay, dating from the 19th century, may represent the reduction of a former cross wing, although its original function as either the screens passage or the solar is unclear. The original building demonstrates cruck construction, as described by N.W. Alcock in a 1981 report.