Brookside

Brookside is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with early 18th-century additions. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, and has a thatched roof with a brick ridge stack. Originally a two-unit plan, it was extended in the 20th century. The house is one storey high with attics.

The front has a symmetrical design with two windows. It features a plank front door flanked by renewed three-light casement windows, each set under a flat, gauged-brick arch. There are two-light dormers above the windows. Five-course brick quoins define all openings and returns. The left gable wall was partly rebuilt in the 19th century using brick, but retains 16th/17th century two-course brick quoins at the rear. A 20th-century rubble and concrete-tiled extension is situated to the right.

Inside, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, and a renewed winder stair on either side. Some timber framing is visible, including in the gables to the right and centre, and part of the rear wall on the left. The roof has curved wind braces. The house was likely originally a single-unit cottage, extended to the left in the 18th century, but incorporating parts of an earlier structure.