Brown Street Farmhouse

Brown Street Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the mid 16th century, built in two stages. It has two storeys and attics, arranged in a three-cell cross-entry plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with some areas featuring 18th-century cable-pattern pargetting. The roof is thatched and includes an axial chimney with a rebuilt 19th-century shaft made of red brick. On the west side, there is a thatched gabled casement dormer. Most of the windows are 20th-century casements. The entrance features a 19th-century slated gabled porch with carved bargeboards and a spike finial, leading to a panelled door.

Inside, the hall and service cells at the south end display plain mid-16th-century framing. There are cranked archbraces beneath the tie-beam over the hall chamber, and the roof features a queen post design with square-set purlins. Around 1550 to 1570, the parlour block was rebuilt with slightly superior framing, including ovolo-moulded first-floor joists and a double-ogee moulded bridging beam. The roof above the parlour cell is a good windbraced clasped-purlin design, while the attic over the parlour is original, with the remaining attics being slightly later in date.