Brookside

Brookside is a house located in Wilstone, dating from the late 15th century, with a rear stair turret and north gable chimney added in the late 17th century, and a large rear wing constructed in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with exposed plastered panels on the first floor and painted brick panels on the ground floor at the eastern front and northern end, while the southern end is roughcast. The rear wing is made of red brick, and there is a low garage at the southern end. The roofs are steep and covered with old red tiles, half-hipped at the south and west.

The house is a small, two-bay, two-storey structure facing east, with a prominent jetty at the front. It has a two-storey 20th-century rear wing and a single-storey lean-to garage at the southern end. Each floor has two windows: the first floor features a two-light flush casement and a two-light Yorkshire sliding casement, while the ground floor has a three-light cast-iron margin-light lattice casement and a three-light wood casement. The entrance is located at the rear.

Inside, there are heavy flat bull-nosed joists supporting the jetty, with painted brick piers at each end. The corners of the house have large convex curved tension braces, and there are central bay-posts and storey-height studs flanking the windows. The north gable includes a cambered tie-beam and collar that support a clasped-purlin roof. An external chimney on the north gable has tiled offsets and one flue, while a smaller, more modern chimney is located on the internal south gable. The original two-bay house shows no signs of original heating. A stair-trap that was formerly used for a stair at the northwest corner leads east. There is a blocked door between the first-floor rooms that is partly over the jetty. A stair was added in the late 17th century to the rear wall of the north bay, along with a large fireplace and chimney at the north end. The roof features curved wind-braces and jowled posts supporting queen-strut and collar trusses.