Brook Farmhouse

TL 4245 FOWLMERE CHAPEL LANE (South Side) 18/104 No 14 (Brook Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse now a house. Early C16, mid to late C17 alterations and rebuilding, late C19 extensions. Timber-framed and plastered with red brick rear wing unified with existing building in south elevation by cased red brick over timber-frame. Plain tiled roofs. Two rectangular planned stacks behind the ridge and rear stacks. Two storeys and attic with lower two storey range of original C16 building to left hand and rear wing to right hand extended forming long L-plan. West elevation; coved plastered eaves cornice to right hand range with gabled lean-to porched entrance and panelled door; panelled architrave and hood with shaped brackets from this doorway resited to perhaps original lobby entry position to left hand. Four C20 ground floor casement windows and three first floor casement windows. Interior: C16 range to left hand of two timber-framed bays with ground floor frame grooved, perhaps for boards, and with chamfered and stopped square sectioned crown post over central truss; originally unheated it may have been a warehouse or floored barn (qv the Old Manor House). Main range and rear wing with pine frame and perhaps reused late C16 floor frame with heavily roll-moulded cross beams. Two relined fireplaces. V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.160 R.C.H.M. Report 1949

Listing NGR: TL4224045581