Brook Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Brook Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-threshold-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 73 SW 1/125 21.12.67
WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (east side) Brook Farmhouse
GV II
House. C.1300, altered in C16 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay hall aligned NW-SE, with late C16 one-bay extension at SE end. Mid-C16 3-bay crosswing at NW end, forming an L-plan, extensively re-styled in C18, with internal stack at NE end and external stack at SW end, C18. Hall range of one storey with attics, crosswing of 2 storeys with attics. NW elevation, 5-window range of C18 sashes of 12 lights with some crown glass. 3 C18/C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 lights in gabled dormers. Central 6-panel door with shallow hood on profiled brackets. SW elevation, 6 C20 casements, and 3 more in gabled dormers. The hall has a cambered main tiebeam with vertical and horizontal spandrel struts and crownpost with 4-way bracing of wide section, steeply angled. The crownpost has a heavily moulded base and capital, consisting of a series of angle fillets, with a complete absence of rolls, heavily smoke-blackened. NE side of hall well restored in early C20. The crosswing formerly had a central stack, removed in the C18.
Listing NGR: TL7135430906
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