Easterbrook

COLEBROOKE PENSTONE SS 70 SE 3/141 - Easterbrook

GV II

House, former farmhouse. Mid C16 with late C16-early C17 and C18 improvements, extended in C19, modernised circa 1980. Plastered cob on rubble footings with some C19 and C20 brick; stone rubble stack topped with C20 brick; corrugated aluminium roof (formerly thatch). Originally a 2-room-and-through-passage plan house facing, south-west with service room on left (north-west) end. all has projecting rear ateral stack. Inner room not added until C19. C20 large porch to rear of passage. 2 storeys. Irregular 4- window front of various C20 casements, most with glazing bars. Front passage doorway left of centre contains C20 plank door. Gable-ended roof. Left end wall complete rebuild of C19 brick. Interior: passage-hall partition is C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen. The muntins are chamfered but lower part of screen (including stops) has been renewed. Hall has volcanic ashlar fireplace with plain soffit-chanfered oak lintel and includes a late C19 bread oven with cast iron door. Hall floored in late cl6-early C17 by large crossbeam with broad soffit chamfers and pyramid stops. All joists replaced circa 1980. In roof a side-pegged jointed cruck over passage-hall screen. It is missing its collar and shows evidence of wattle-and-daub infill. Rest of roof over service room, passage and hall replaced in C18 by A-frame trusses with pegged lap- jointed collars and X-apexes, and the hipped end of that roof still survives over upper end of hall. Roof extended in C19. Rare survival of small C16 farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SS7753100429