Brook Cottage Brookside

GLOVER'S ROAD 1. 5387 Brook Cottage and TQ 2341 4/12 Brookside II

1. Early C16, early C17 and C18. Originally an early C16, 2 bay open hall house with hall of one bay and one bedroom jettied out over the hall with the dairy below. About the same time as the hall was floored over and a chimney added in the early C17, a 2 bay extension was added at the south end. In the C18 a further gabled wing was added on this side. Two storeys timber-framed with red brick infilling. Square framing with some diagonal braces. Tiled roof. Five casement windows in all. Two simple doorcases with weather boards. The interiors has jowled posts and smoke blackened rafters over the original open hall. The original smoke vent is still open. (See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 44. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 31)

Listing NGR: TQ2363041095