Farmhouse At Westbrook

A small two-storey farmhouse dating from the C17.   MATERIALS: ground floor walls of red brick with grey headers laid in Flemish bond, stretcher bond brickwork to the west range. Tile-hung first floor. Clay tile roofs. Brick chimney.   PLAN: rectangular with the long elevations approximately west and east. Originally probably a single-pile but west range added later. Projecting porch to the centre of the east elevation.   EXTERIOR: Two-storey main range under a hipped roof with ridge pierced by a central chimney stack with corbel courses. The single-storey west range, which was probably built slightly later is covered by a catslide roof. This elevation has two tripartite windows and a door to the ground floor, plus a single window set in an eyebrow dormer to the upper level. The north elevation has a square four-light window and a small single-light window to the ground floor, and a bipartite window to the first floor. The east elevation has a central projecting porch covered by catlside roof, containing a door and ground-floor window. On the north side of this porch there is a tripartite window to each floor. On the south side there is a single window to the ground floor; the first floor appears to have been reclad.