Brook Farm

Brook Farm is a house dating from around 1600. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, topped with a peg-tiled roof that is half hipped with gablets. The building is two stories tall with an attic and features a two-window range along with a central 20th-century porch. A central chimney stack, which has been rebuilt and does not exactly match the original, is designed in a 'concertina' style. At the back, there is a continuous outshut with a 'cat slide' roof. The layout of the house is a 'colonial prototype', which is rare in England; it has a stack positioned at the back of a central chimney bay, allowing for a winding stair from the ground floor to the attics at the front near the door, a common feature in New England.

The windows have been replaced with UPVC double glazing from the 20th century, but their position and scale are correct. Inside, the principal frame includes jowled posts and straight tension bracing to the middle rails, along with carpenters' marks indicative of a medieval building system. The joists of the ground floor ceiling feature stop-chamfered ends in both lamb's tongue and diamond 'broach' forms. The roof is of the clasped side purlin type, supported by wind braces from the end wall frames. An old boarded door of a contemporary style is found in the attic. The outshut has been rebuilt but likely occupies the site of the original and shares the groundsill. Some fireplaces and part of the stair have undergone rebuilding.