Red Brick Cottage

Red Brick Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century that incorporates part of a medieval building. It has undergone later additions and alterations, with extensions made in the late 20th century. The exterior features chequered red brick with blue brick headers and ashlar dressings on the south side, while the north side is made of roughly coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings. The roof is hipped and covered with stone slate.

The cottage has two storeys and an attic, with alternating angle quoins on the south side. The front has five windows, with glazing bar sashes (some horned) on the first floor and casements designed to imitate sashes on the ground floor. All windows have projecting keystones above stone lintels. There are three hip-roofed dormers with horned sashes located in the middle of the roof slope. A central glazed door features a head similar to the windows. At the rear left corner, there is a rebuilt internal lateral stack.

On the north side, there are three bays, with a sash window featuring thick glazing bars on the left side of the first floor, a 18th-century oculus in the center, and horned glazing bar sashes on the right. The ground floor has a half-glazed door in the center and leaded casements with wood lintels on either side. This side also has three hip-roofed dormers similar to those on the south side.

Inside, a partial inspection was conducted during a resurvey in August 1987. The left ground-floor room contains a plastered groined vault in three bays, which may be the only surviving fragment of the Cistercian abbey founded at Bruern in 1147. Lower 20th-century ranges attached to the left and right are not of special architectural interest.