Brockle Farmhouse

Brockle Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1700, likely a remodelling of an earlier house, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a slate-hung porch and a rear outshut. It has a rag slate roof with gabled ends and 19th-century crested ridge tiles, along with rendered gable ends and axial stacks. The house has a long five-room plan with outshuts at the rear on both the left and right sides, and it stands two storeys tall.

The southeast front is not quite symmetrical and has three windows. The 19th-century sash windows have glazing bars, with 16 panes on the right and 20 panes on the left; the first-floor left-hand sash extends beyond the eaves and has slate sills. Centrally located on the right is a gabled two-storey porch, slate-hung on the first floor, featuring a 19th-century 16-pane sash window and a ground floor with a half-glazed door that has intersecting glazing bars in the fanlight. To the left, slightly set back and with a lower roof, is a single-storey range with 20th-century plastic windows and a painted brick porch. At the right end, there is a small 20th-century single-storey outshut. The main roof extends down at the rear over the two-storey outshuts, with the left-hand outshut being slate-hung and featuring a horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars, as well as a 19th-century star window with stained glass margin faces. Between the outshuts, there is a 16-pane sash window on the first floor.

Inside, the lower right-hand room serves as a fine parlour, complete with bolection moulded panelling, a bolection chimneypiece, and a cornice above the door. The hall features a bolection moulded panelled door and a notable circa 1700 dog-leg staircase with a pulvinated and cyma-moulded string, square newels, twisted balusters, and a moulded handrail. The left-hand room in the main range has a simple late 19th-century chimneypiece with console brackets and an 18th-century two-panel door leading to a later second staircase. The first floor and roof structure have not been inspected.