Brickhouse Farmhouse

Brickhouse Farmhouse is a house largely dating from around 1590, incorporating a fragment of a medieval building, and altered in the 19th century. The structure is mainly built of plastered brick, with some plastered timber framing, and has a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The main range faces west, featuring an axial stack to the left of the centre, creating a lobby-entrance. A timber-framed and plastered stair tower is located at the rear of the right end, with a 19th-century internal stack and a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension beyond. A 19th-century single-storey extension with an axial stack extends to the rear of the left end, and a 20th-century lean-to extension with a corrugated asbestos roof is situated to the right of it. The house has two storeys, with disused attics. It has a four-window range of 19th-century casement windows. A 20th-century half-glazed door is set within a gabled brick porch. Five iron ties, with S-plates, are sunk into the plaster. Shaped sprockets are visible below the eaves. The chimney shaft was rebuilt in the 19th century. A brick porch is on the left return.

Internally, to the left of the stack are two transverse beams and two bridging beams, all chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, along with chamfered joists, most of which are plastered over. To the right of the stack, there is one moulded transverse beam and one chamfered transverse beam with two chamfered bridging beams, again with lamb's tongue stops, with the joists plastered in; the moulded beam has been repaired at the rear. The left ground-floor hearth is a wood-burning fireplace with a chamfered mantel beam featuring lamb's tongue stops; the right ground-floor hearth is also wood-burning with a rebuilt arch. The left first-floor hearth has chamfered jambs and a four-centred arch, with original plaster. The attic floor has four transverse beams and four bridging beams, all chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, with the joists plastered over. The roof is of heavy clasped purlin construction, with some rafters replaced.

A fragment of the timber-framed wall of a medieval hall house is exposed internally within the front wall of the left ground floor room, with the wallplate approximately 2.10 metres above the floor and the studs approximately 0.40 metres apart. It is not clear if other parts of the medieval structure are present elsewhere. The stair tower has been divided into two storeys, and a short length of stair at the top may be original. An original window is blocked internally by the intruded stack and plastered over externally, located in the rear wall of the stair tower. An original moulded oak door is at the head of this short stair, while a 17th/early 18th-century painted seven-panel door is at the foot of the attic stair.