Brookslyn And Brooks View

House, now 2 cottages, dating to circa 1500 or earlier, with alterations in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, with a thatched roof. The building comprises a 2-bay medieval hall facing south-east with an axial stack in the left bay, a parlour or solar bay to the right, and a service bay to the left. A late 17th-century bay was added to the right with an axial stack at its left end, followed by an early 19th-century bay beyond with a 19th-century stack at its left end. A small 20th-century tiled lean-to extension extends to the right. An early 19th-century extension is attached to the left end, with a 19th and early 20th-century wing to the rear, and a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension to the right of it. The building is now divided into two cottages: Brookslyn comprises the medieval parlour or solar bay and the extensions to the right of it; Brooks View comprises the remainder of the original house and extensions to the left and rear. The building is one storey with attics.

Brookslyn has on the ground floor three 20th-century metal casements, one early 19th-century 3-light window with wrought iron casement and rectangular leading in a lean-to dormer, and one early 19th-century 2-light window with original saddle bars and rectangular leading (casement replaced) in a lean-to dormer, together with a 20th-century half-glazed door. Brooks View has on the ground floor two 20th-century metal casements, one more in a lean-to dormer, and one early 19th-century 3-light casement (much altered) in a lean-to dormer, plus a 20th-century half-glazed door.

In Brookslyn, the original bay contains jowled posts and heavy studding. The doorway to the hall has been blocked with one inserted stud. Plain joists of horizontal section are jointed to the binding beam on the left with unrefined soffit tenons and lodged on a pegged clamp on the right. Softwood floorboards overlie earlier boards. Some wattle and daub infill survives, and the roof is of coupled rafters. In the right-hand bay the stack is much altered with 20th-century bricks. There is a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section (some replaced with softwood), with original oak floorboards. A fully framed and pegged doorway has been made through the end tiebeam of the original house for access to the upper room. The bay at the right end has plain softwood joists arranged longitudinally. In Brooks View the stack in the hall is fully plastered with 20th-century grates on each side, forming a lobby entrance; on the available evidence it is probably 17th-century, altered at the top in the 19th century. The 17th-century inserted floor in the hall has plain joists of square section arranged longitudinally, supported on a pegged clamp. The jowled post at the front left corner of the hall is exposed; the opposite post is concealed in a partition. The tiebeam has been severed for a doorway. At the left end of the service bay (originally the end wall of the medieval building) the tiebeam and all studs are missing. The posts have been extended upwards approximately 0.60 metre and additional wallplates fitted at the higher level.

The development of the building shows that in the 17th century a chimney and floor were inserted in the hall and the roof was raised. Later in the 17th century a bay was added at the right end and a doorway made through the tiebeam. In the early 19th century a bay was added at each end and the medieval house was divided into two unequal parts for use as cottages.