Brambles Farmhouse

Brambles Farmhouse is a 17th-century cottage that features a timber frame with plastered walls and an exposed frame, topped with a roof made of concrete tiles. The building has two bays facing south and includes an original internal stack located against the rear wall, slightly left of center, along with a full-length outshut at the back. It is a single storey with attics, containing two 20th-century metal casement windows and an additional one in a gabled dormer. The front has a 20th-century door set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The left end of the roof has a gablet hip, while the right end of the cottage adjoins a later brick house, which is a separate dwelling. The exposed framing on the left side reveals that the rear outshut is fully jointed and pegged, seamlessly integrated with the main structure. The cottage features primary straight bracing that is visible both externally and internally. Inside, the right bay contains a chamfered axial beam with plain square-section joists attached using soffit tenons with diminished haunches. There is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right, and the floor structure in the left bay is ceiled. The concrete roof tiles were noted to be well weathered during a survey in November 1985, making them hard to distinguish from handmade red clay tiles.