The Brake Cottage

The Brake Cottage is a former engine and dynamo house, now used as a house, built in 1898 by Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin. It was altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a half-hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves. It has a rectangular four-bay plan and is a single storey with an attic.

The west front elevation includes two ground floor windows with four lights each, featuring chamfered mullions and leaded casements. The outer bays have large timber lintels; beneath the left bay is a two-light casement and a half-glazed door, while beneath the right bay is a half-glazed panel and a half-glazed door, all of which are mid-20th century additions. At each end of the building, there are five-light chamfered mullioned windows in the attic. The half-hipped section of the roof has a gabled louvred ventilation opening.

On the south gable end, there is a lean-to that includes a two-light casement and a half-glazed door on its west side. Additionally, an original lean-to shed supported by cast iron posts and brackets, with a corrugated iron roof, is attached to the rear elevation.