Brook Farmhouse

Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 16th century. It has two storeys and a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed with pebbledash render and features 20th-century concrete pantiles and wide, plain eaves. The internal chimney stack is constructed from small red and yellow Tudor bricks and has four attached shafts arranged in a cruciform pattern, set diagonally on a rectangular base, with later corbelled heads.

On the upper floor, there are four early 19th-century three-light casement windows with pintle hinges, while the ground floor has three similar three-light windows with transoms and a small-paned sash window in a cased frame on the gable wall. The main frame consists of six bays and is of high quality, with both the hall and parlour on either side of the stack featuring heavy main beams adorned with multiple roll-moulding, which is also present on the beams of the chimney bay and partition walls. The upper floor showcases cambered tie-beams, long deep arched braces, and long jowls on the posts, along with blocked mullion windows. The room above the parlour boasts a fine original cambered ceiling, with three trimmers morticed into each side of the tie-beam and the spaces between plastered. The roof is inaccessible. Additionally, there is a 17th-century bay at the service end, which now includes an end stack and has much simpler framing.