Brook Cottage

Brook Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with a 20th-century extension added in 1928 to the left end. The walls are likely cob and stone, rendered, and the roof is tiled with gabled ends on the original block. A front lateral stack is located at the right end, a rear lateral stack (with a truncated shaft), and an end stack to the 1928 addition.

The house originally had a two-room, single-depth plan, potentially with a through or cross passage. An awkward junction with the neighboring property, 'Springside', suggests the original house may have extended further to the right. A 20th-century staircase is now in the passage; a previous staircase was located adjacent to the front lateral stack. In 1928, a crosswing with a shop window was added to the left end.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with a 1:2 window arrangement (one window on the addition), and a plank front door set within a gabled porch hood, where the passage would have been. The windows are mostly two-light casements from the late 19th or 20th century. The left return of the addition, facing the churchyard entrance, has one ground floor casement and a first floor sash window.

Inside, the ground floor rooms feature chamfered step-stopped crossbeams. Both open fireplaces have original lintels; the left-hand fireplace lintel is nick-stopped, and the right-hand lintel is step-stopped. A plank and muntin screen originally separated the passage from the right-hand room. Significant early plasterwork remains on the first floor.

The roof structure incorporates side-pegged jointed crucks below a later roof structure, with threaded purlins and ridge. There is no evidence of smoke-blackening.

The cottage forms a group with the adjoining cottages to the right (north), the Church House opposite, and the church.