Brown'S End

Brown's End is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations occurring in the late 18th century and early 20th century. The house is timber-framed and rendered, though much of the render is now covered with applied dummy close-studded framing. The rear wing and porch are built with Flemish-bond brickwork. The roof is tiled, except for the right return, which is covered in shingles. The house is arranged in an 'H' shape, with a central 4-bay section and 2 and 3-bay wings.

The front of the house features applied timber framing over a brick plinth, with one panel high ground floor and two first floor panels. Most windows have leaded lights within mullion and transom frames, dating to the same period as the applied framing. A projecting gable on the right side has a three-light window. A projecting early 20th-century brick porch sits recessed in the centre, with a four-light iron casement window and a flat head. A blocked door is located on the left return, now an altered window. The front door is boarded and set beneath an open gabled porch carried on four Jacobean-style columns, with a three-light window on either side. A single-storey, hipped-roof canted bay is set into the left gable, featuring a three-light window with plain glass in the lower portion. A two-light window is located on the right gable and within the porch, which has a cambered brick arch. Coved eaves are present on the centre of the house, overlooking three irregularly spaced two-light casement windows below, and a three-light casement in the left gable. Plain bargeboards are on the gables, along with a timber apex finial. A hipped dormer is located to the right of the centre. Brick chimneys are on the ridge behind the timber porch, and on the ridge to the right wing towards the rear; a further chimney is on the left return.

Inside, the room to the right of the timber porch has a ceiling divided into nine sections by heavy chamfered beams with double-splayed stops. A rear door on the right side has seven fielded panels, a 'Y' tracery to a semi-circular head, and fielded panels to the spandrels over, with a dummy keystone. The room to the front right gable is panelled on three sides, with a moulded cornice above, and two plain beams mortised for separate ceiling joists. A bar stop is present on a heavy chamfer in the ceiling beam of the adjacent room. A dogleg staircase is located behind the brick porch, dividing at the half landing, with a moulded handrail and turned balusters. Two-panel doors off the stairs on the first floor retain original hinges and latches. The beams in the right room’s centre have similar stops to the room below, but a smaller chamfer. Original timber framing is exposed in the right wing on the first floor and in the right part of the centre, including main posts and some framing to the left wing. An original window to the rear of the centre part, first floor, is a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom with an iron opening light. The centre roof has two pairs of purlins and a square ridge. The shingles were reportedly used to replace stone slates. The left wing was extended at the rear in the early 20th century and was altered slightly following a fire in the 1950s. The house forms a group with the bakehouse and barn nearby.