Brooke Cottage

Brooke Cottage is a cottage, originally a farmhouse, dating from around the early 17th century. It is constructed of rendered cob on a stone plinth, with a half-hipped thatched roof and an internal end stack on the left. Originally a three-room plan with a cross passage, it had a kitchen on the left and higher rooms to the right. The original kitchen has been significantly altered and its front obscured by a 20th-century thatched wing on the south side. The original entrance has been blocked, marked by a 20th-century window flanked by Thorverton stone buttresses; the current entrance is to the right, under a thatched porch. The front of the original building has four windows above and three below. The left-hand end fireplace contains a small oven, stone jamb, and a chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. The former hall fireplace is similar, without an oven and with step stops. Throughout the cottage, beams remain, with chamfered edges and step stops. The first floor and roof were not inspected.