Brambles Wood

Brambles Wood is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added at both ends, likely in the 18th century, and a west wing built in the 1970s. The house features a timber frame on a low sill, with roughcast walls and lower extensions that are dark weatherboarded. It has a steep thatched roof that extends down as hips over the end extensions. The linked west wing is also dark weatherboarded and has a steep pitch hipped red tile roof. This picturesque house is set in a clearing and faces south, with an L-shaped 1½-storey newer wing connected to the west end and extending to the south.

The layout consists of two cells with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan, including single-storey extensions at each end and a small rear extension to the west bay. The main part of the house appears to have been the hall, featuring an axial beam that supports the exposed joists of the floor, with axial joists present only in the east bay. A winding stair is located at the rear of the stack and is accessed from the west room.

The south front has two dormers with two lights each at the eaves, flanked by two three-light flush casement windows beside a plank door, and there are two-light casements at each end extension, with the eastern one featuring lattice leaded plate casements. Inside, the house has exposed timbers, long tension braces in the walls, a clasped-purlin roof, and iron hinges on the doors. The central tie-beam is now encased in the chimney, indicating that the chimney and possibly the upper floor were later additions.