Brook End Farmhouse

Brook End Farmhouse is a house of the 17th century or earlier, with a west wing that was brick-cased in 1712 and a main range renovated in 1729, and largely rebuilt after a fire around 1775. The timber frame of the west wing is exposed on its west side, while the rest of the house is in red and blue brick. The roofs are steeply pitched with old red tiles, generally hipped, but with a parapeted front gable to the west wing.

This is a large, irregular two-storey house, set back slightly from a south-facing road. The main range runs parallel to the road, with a projecting west wing, a large rear wall chimney, and an 18th-century full-height rear service block linked to the west wing by a formerly open, arcaded brick passage recessed into the back of the house. The south front of the slightly projecting west wing features two plat-bands and moulded coping bricks to the raking gable parapet. It has two low, wide flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes and segmental arches. Other details include a rendered square sundial panel, a Britannia fire insurance mark, and iron letters “M N S” which served as anchorage for internal longitudinal timbers. The main range has four windows to the first floor, a plat-band, a parapet, three windows to the ground floor, and an entrance on the left-hand side. The flush box sash windows have segmental arches. Sashes were altered in the early 19th century to 3/3 panes with margin lights. A six-panel front door is set within a wooden doorcase with tapered fluted pilasters, a full entablature, and a dentilled triangular pediment. A three-light casement window is on the rear first floor of the west wing, which has a crow-stepped east side to the gable as a later addition, but a moulded raking gable parapet to the other slope. The rear features a round-arched arcade with fat impost blocks. An inscription inside the house is said to read "MNS 1729."