Brook Farmhouse

Brook Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 17th century but was refronted in 1803. It features a roughcast exterior with ashlar dressings and a hipped stone slate roof, along with end stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range that includes alternating paired and single 12-pane sash windows set in flush ashlar surrounds. The fourth bay contains a half-glazed door topped by a traceried fanlight, all framed by a Roman Doric columned open-pedimented surround. Architectural details include a plinth, a band, rusticated quoins, a moulded cornice, and a parapet. There are two hipped dormers on the front, while the rear features two dormers, a wall-face stack in the center, and hipped rear wings on each side, also with dormers. The southeast wing has roughcast side walls. The ends of the main range have rainwater heads dated TPW 1803. It is said that the house was originally a 17th-century structure purchased by John Pyke in the mid-18th century and refronted for Thomas Pyke, who died in 1815.