Northbrook

Northbrook is a house located in Dolton, likely dating from the 17th century, though it may have earlier origins. The building has been significantly modernised in the late 20th century. Its construction features partly rendered cob and rubble walls, topped with a hipped thatch roof. There are three rebuilt small rubble stacks, with two positioned axially and one at the side of the rear wing.

The original layout of the house is obscured by the 20th-century alterations, but it is believed to have been either a pair of cottages or a three-room-and-through-passage arrangement. The lower end was probably to the left and heated by a stack backing onto the passage, with a small unheated room in the centre and a right-hand room heated by an axial stack. The right-hand end of the house may have originally served as an outbuilding and features a 19th or 20th-century lean-to against its right end. The date of the wing behind the left-hand end is uncertain but is likely from the 19th century, as is a similar outshut along the rear wall.

The exterior of the house stands two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical long front with seven windows, featuring later 20th-century one and two-light small-paned casements. There is a 20th-century open-fronted thatch-roofed porch towards the left-hand end, which leads to a 19th-century plank door. The lean-to at the right-hand end is covered by a catslide thatch roof. A small wing is located behind the left-hand end, and there is an outshut along the rear wall. The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey.