Gibbons Brook Farmhouse Shalom

Gibbons Brook Farmhouse, now a house, dates from the early to mid 17th century, with an 18th-century addition. It was restored in the mid 20th century. The building is timber framed, featuring painted brick and rendered infilling, and has a plain tile roof. It consists of four timber-framed bays of roughly equal length, divided into two rooms of two bays each on the ground floor, and has two storeys. The left gable end jetties out, with exposed framing on the first floor. The right end has close-studding, while the left gable end has broadly-spaced studding with one tension brace. The roof is hipped, with a gablet on the left. There is a rear stack on the right end bay. The fenestration is irregular, featuring two 20th-century casements—one with two lights and the other with three lights—both located to the right of the door. A ribbed door with a flat bracketed hood is positioned to the left end of the third bay from the left. At the rear, there is an 18th-century parallel range made of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, which has 20th-century windows. Inside, the farmhouse displays exposed framing and a clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, yokes, and windbraces.