Smallbrook Cottage

Smallbrook Cottage is a former farmhouse that was once three cottages and is now a single house. It likely dates from the mid-17th century and underwent extensive refurbishment around 1980 when the cottages were combined. The building features a timber frame on brick footings, with some exposed timber but most of the exterior hung with peg tiles. It has a brick stack, possibly on a stone base, and a brick chimney shaft, topped with a peg-tile roof.

The house has a three-room lobby entrance plan facing north, with the center room originally being the only heated space. The axial stack is located at the back of the right (west) end room, which suggests this area was originally a pair of service rooms. Detailed descriptions of the interior layout are not possible without an internal inspection.

The cottage is two stories high with attics in the roof space. The exterior features an irregular arrangement of windows, with a total of four casements on the front, which are 20th-century and contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. Similar windows are found on the other sides of the building. There is a two-storey gabled porch to the right of center, likely built around 1980, which has exposed timber framing and is open on the right side. The front doorway features a 20th-century plank door, and the porch gable has shaped bargeboards from the same period. The roof is tall and steeply pitched, half-hipped on the left side and gable-ended on the right. The right end wall displays exposed framing with relatively slender scantling and curving tension braces, which likely date from the 17th century.

The interior was not available for inspection during the survey, but it is suspected to contain original carpentry details.