Brook Cottages

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. JAMES THE STREET TM 38 SW

4/60 Brook Cottages

• II

Former farmhouse, now divided into 2 cottages. Early C16 core, with later extensions. 2 storeys; 3-cell plan. Timber-framed and roughcast:; thatched roof. An internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft, and a later end stack. Various 3-light and 2-light casement windows, some old, with transomes and pintle hinges, some late C20 replacements. One 4-panel entrance door with sunk panels below an open gabled latticed porch; one C20 plank door in a late- C20 enclosed and gabled red brick porch. A limited amount of timbering exposed inside: one bay of very heavy joists, set flat and unchamfered, at the left end; in the central room, a heavy main cross-beam, with wide chamfers,and cut-off stops, supported by small solid braces. Lighter timbering in the right-hand cottage,. apparently an addition. The frame said to be covered on the upper floor, and the roof not accessible.

Listing NGR: TM3161781092