Brookside Cottage

Brookside Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 16th century. It features a framed construction built on sandstone footings and has a peg-tile roof with a brick stack.

The house faces west and consists of a small three-bay, two-cell layout with an outshut at the south end. The two rooms are heated by back-to-back fireplaces located in an axial stack, and the outshut has been incorporated into the house as a third room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has three windows. The framing is preserved down to the footings, with tension braces above the middle rail on the right side. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, with a lean-to roof over the left end outshut. The stack features staggered shafts and a corbelled brick cornice, with the front shaft having a recessed panel. There is a 19th-century plank front door leading to the lobby entrance, which has a late 20th-century gabled porch hood. The house has various 20th-century casement windows of different sizes, with three on the ground floor and two on the first floor. The rear elevation includes a large glazed fixed window on the ground floor, along with various 19th and 20th-century casements and sashes.

Inside, the larger southern heated room has exposed waney joists along its long axis, while the northern room features a rough crossbeam and exposed joists. Both rooms have open fireplaces with brick jambs. A 20th-century stair rises against the rear wall next to the stack. The framing includes jowled wall posts.

The roof has a staggered butt purlin structure, with some evidence of blackening around the timbers near the stack.