Brook Cottage

Brook Cottage is a 17th-century house with a timber-framed structure, featuring two panels high per floor and set on a low stone plinth. The building includes some wattle and daub infill as well as brick nogging, and it has a tiled roof. The front of the cottage has two unequal bays, with the larger bay on the right, which is 16 storeys high. On the left bay, there is a two-light casement window and a single-light window, while the right bay has a two-light casement window. A glazed metal door is located on the right, covered by a single-storey lean-to extension that wraps around the end; this extension has a brick base, a glazed top, and a boarded door. Above this, the end of the main beam in the left bay rests on a rail in the centre of the panel, with the panels generally set back slightly from the face of the timbers. The main posts are supported by straight braces to the wallplate. In the centre, there are twin two-light casement windows in a lean-to dormer. The left end of the roof is half-hipped, while the right end has a gable. There is a large stone chimney projection on the right and a small brick stack on top. Inside, the cottage features a cut tie-beam truss with wind braces extending from the truss to the wallplate in the right bay only, and the rafters are pegged to a square ridge. The internal doors are boarded.