Brook Farmhouse

Brook Farmhouse is a house dating back to the 16th century, with extensions added in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and faced with plaster, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main range consists of two bays facing east, with an internal stack in the rear part of the right bay, and a two-bay crosswing to the right. A three-bay rear wing lies behind the stack, forming a T-shaped plan. There's an early 19th-century brick extension with a slate roof in the rear right angle, and a 20th-century lean-to conservatory to the rear of the building. A larger 20th-century extension is located to the right.

The ground floor has four 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has one 20th-century casement and two more in gabled dormers. The front door is in a fluted doorcase with a canopy supported by scrolled brackets, and was replaced in 1985. A pentice board is visible on the gable. The roof is half-hipped at the left end.

Inside, the main range features chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue and notch stops. The joinery details include edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and a framed newel stair with a moulded handrail and serpentine splat balusters, dating to around 1600. Two fireplaces are present: the one on the left has been much rebuilt, while the one on the right has been reduced in width, but retains a chamfered mantel beam with a stop at one end. The crosswing has an axial beam with 20th-century chamfers and plain, square-sectioned joists joined to it with soffit tenons, some with diminished haunches and others with simpler soffit tenons. The first-floor room in the crosswing is lined with pine panelling from the late 17th or early 18th century and includes a small area of guilloche combed plaster against the attic stair. The rear wing has a chamfered axial beam with a lamb's tongue and notch stop, and a face-halved and bladed scarf in one wallplate. Simple edge-halved scarfs on both wallplates indicate a previous extension to the rear, and a panel of stick wattle and daub is preserved behind glass. The roofs are of clasped purlin construction. The newel stair may originally have been built against the stack, creating a lobby-entrance. The rear wing, with its bladed scarfs, dates back to approximately 1600 and was later extended.