Bybrook

Bybrook is a house dated 1687, constructed from rubble stone with some rendered sections and stone tiled roofs. It features two rear chimney gables and coped gables on the east and west sides, both with saddlestones. The house is two and a half storeys high and has a formal south front with two gables. There is a dripcourse over the main floors and 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, with two hoodmoulds in the attic, four on the first floor, and two on the ground floor to the left. The ground floor on the right has two early to mid 18th century raised moulded surrounds, originally for sash windows, now fitted with 20th-century windows. These break the dripcourse, but dripstones have been reset above them. The west end wall has a similar 2-light window on the first floor, while a ground floor lean-to obscures a blocked moulded doorcase with a hoodmould and a datestone reading H I 1687. There is a rear lean-to as well. The east end features an attic 2-light window with a hoodmould and an attached shop, which is single storey to the rear and two storeys to the front.

Inside, there is a fine chamfered and bar-stopped centre beam in the main rooms. The ground and first floor east side rooms have bolection moulded fireplaces with stone shelves above, and the first floor fireplace includes scroll decoration on the frieze. Additionally, there is a fielded panelled door on the east end of the ground floor.