Brookside

Brookside is a house dating from around 1600, with some alterations made in the early 19th century. It features a plastered and whitewashed timber frame and has a Welsh slate roof with a central ridge stack made of gault brick. The house has a two-unit lobby-entry plan and stands two storeys tall, with a two-window range on both floors consisting of 3/3 sash windows with moulded architraves. There is a central door, and on the left end, there is a similar 3/3 sash window on both floors. At the rear, there is a lean-to structure under a catslide roof.

Inside, the house has tall panel framing with jowled posts. The layout includes a parlour on the left and a hall on the right, each with a single bay and a central chimney bay above. There are back-to-back open fireplaces with exposed brickwork and piers. The hall fireplace features a chamfered bressumer with a scroll-stop on the right side, although it is damaged on the left. The parlour fireplace also has a chamfered bressumer and a curved hearth back. The timber framing includes a significant amount of reused timber from a medieval house, with studwork that has average spacing, some of which is unpegged. The front wall and right-hand gable have a midrail, while the rear wall has full-height studding, with most or all studs being medieval reused. The house includes jowled storeyposts and chamfered wallplates of early 17th-century style, featuring bladed scarfs and narrow chamfers. The tiebeams are uncambered and chamfered. The roof is a simple clasped purlin design with deep and narrow collars, and it contains several reused, smoke-blackened medieval rafters with redundant halvings for collars. Four rafters have double collar-halving from hipped structures, indicating that the medieval building was originally hipped at both ends. Brookside is a little-altered house from its period and serves as an interesting example of the reuse of earlier timber framing.