Brockweir Inn

Brockweir Inn

Public house built in the early 16th century, re-fronted as a house in the late 17th century, and converted to an inn from the late 18th century, with a 19th-century rear service range and 20th and 21st-century alterations.

The building is constructed of local rubble stone with stone quoins and arches to the façade openings. The roof and floor structures are of oak with oak and pine repairs and replacements. The roofs are covered in clay pantiles and there are 21st-century brick stacks.

The plan comprises four bays and two storeys plus attic and basement. A central stairwell serves all floors with pub rooms to each side and servery area to the rear. To the rear right is a widened opening to a modern link and a two-storey service range.

The exterior displays a symmetrical five-bay façade with a central door and a 21st-century projecting timber porch. A pedimented gable above contains a modern casement with a stone plaque above it. All openings have flat arches of stone voussoirs. The flank walls each have an attic window. The rear elevation has a door and window with 20th and 21st-century additions to each side and four openings to the first floor. The pitched roof has a central gable to the road and end stacks.

The interior features a restored timber-framed stairwell with a 21st-century softwood staircase. The rooms to each side have an inglenook fireplace with bressumer to the rubblestone end walls. The stonework is not engaged with the front and back walls. The former ceiling beam incorporated in the inglenook to the right room has been replaced with an iron rail and timber infill. Other ground-floor beams have stop chamfers (most diagonally cut, but one has a flat step stop) with some repair and replacement to the ends. One beam is an historic reused jowled post, and is propped. Some joists are 21st-century replacements, notably where they adjoin the restored stairwell. The wide opening to the back wall right has a concrete lintel. A small sealed opening with an oak lintel stands to the right. To the left is an area of wall infilled with concrete block. To the far left of the back wall is a door and an oak lintel to an alcove to the right of the fireplace in the flank wall.

The first floor has fireplaces to each end, both offset within the chimneybreast. Concealed behind the chimneybreast is a splayed window opening in the east end wall. The ceiling beams are chamfer-stopped and form the tie beams to the trusses above; one is a 21st-century replacement. The oak joists are 21st-century replacements.

The attic floor contains five pegged oak trusses, two rows of purlins, common rafters and a diagonally set ridge piece. Trusses 1 and 5 are almost flush with the stonework of the end walls. Some of the purlins have been reset and the collars to the inner trusses have been removed. Truss 3 has been adapted to form the gable to the road front. Roman numeral assembly marks appear on trusses 2 to 5. The floor level has been lowered as part of 2020 works. The basement has a concrete floor.

The rear two-storey service range has ground-floor doors to each end and a first-floor loading door to the north-west end. Principal openings have metal frames under pine lintels, but one to the south wall has an historic oak lintel. The ground floor has fireplaces to each end. The first floor has an exposed pine king-post roof structure of mid-19th-century date with iron bolts and straps and shipping marks. The first-floor structure, roof and some openings in the service range have been restored or adapted in pine, with concrete blocks inserted to the eaves.