Brook Cottage

Brook Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with weatherboarding and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing northeast, with an axial beam near one end. There are two 20th-century extensions to the rear, with catslide roofs, and a 20th-century lean-to extension to the left end. The cottage is single-storey with attics. It has five 20th-century casement windows, and one more in a gabled dormer. A boarded door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The date 1681 is inscribed in modern plaster on the dormer. Inside, the original large wood-burning hearth has been reduced for a 20th-century grate, with chamfered axial and transverse beams, plain joists of vertical section, jowled posts, and primary straight bracing.