Brockholes Bank

Brockholes Bank is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with painted brick infill set on a rendered plinth and has a machine tile roof. The building is one storey with an attic and consists of three framed bays. The framing features tall vertical panels supporting a girding beam, with single square panels above to the wall-plate and long straight tension braces. The plastered gable ends are painted black and white to imitate a timber frame, although they retain the structural framing behind. The back wall has square panelling that is now hidden by a full-length 20th-century single-storey brick lean-to, which is not of special architectural interest. There are 20th-century casements on the left and right sides, with three contemporary flat-roofed eaves dormers above. The entrance is through a 20th-century door in the right gable end, and there is a painted brick ridge stack slightly to the left of centre. Inside, the ground floor has been opened up into one room but still retains stop-chamfered spine beams with heavy joists. The single-purlin roof has trusses that were concealed by wallpaper at the time of the last survey in 1985.