147, Stokke Common

This is a house built around the late 17th century, with a later extension added in the late 20th century. It features red and vitrified brick laid in both English and Flemish bonds, topped with a thatched roof that has half-hipped ends and eyebrow eaves at the front. There are brick stacks at the axial and end points of the building.

The house has a three-room layout, with a kitchen on the northeast side that includes a fireplace in the end wall and a rear doorway for direct entry. The central hall is heated by a large axial fireplace and has winder stairs leading to the attic chambers. On the southwest end, there is a small unheated room. A small late 20th-century extension is set back on the northeast end.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical two-window southeast front, where the windows are positioned towards the right. These include two and three-light casements with glazing bars, and the window on the central left and the central glazed door are topped with cambered brick arches. Eyebrow eaves extend over two attic windows. The northeast end features a two-light casement with leaded panes and the late 20th-century extension, which is clad in corrugated iron and thatch. The southwest end has two-light casements on both floors. At the rear, there are one and two-light casements and a plank door to the left, all with cambered brick arches.

Inside, the right-hand room, which is the kitchen, has a roughly chamfered axial beam without stops and exposed unchamfered joists, along with a brick fireplace that has a cambered timber bressumer. The central hall has a large chamfered axial beam with straight-cut stops at one end and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer featuring long cyma stops. The small unheated room on the southwest end has exposed unchamfered joists and timber-framed partitions. The attic chambers reveal a collar and tie-beam roof with clasped purlins exposed.

This house is a good example of a small brick house from the late 17th century.