Brooklet House

Brooklet House is a cottage dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, featuring timber lintels, a pantile roof, and a brick stack. The building has a two-cell plan with a central stack, and the entrance aligns with the staircase next to the south gable end. Each cell is divided to create a small service room at the rear, with the southern cell having a 20th-century archway. Brooklet House may have originated from two single-cell cottages, with the northern cottage having a gable entry from a shared cross passage with Rose Cottage. The attic floor of Brooklet House extends as a flying freehold over this cross passage.

The front elevation features a plank door at the right end, sheltered by an open, gabled timber porch. There are two ground-floor windows, both horizontal sliding Yorkshire sashes with two lights of six small panes, and slightly smaller two-light Yorkshire sashes above them, lighting the attic. The central stack appears to have been raised in the 19th or early 20th century, and the ridgeline is undulating. The rear includes a Yorkshire sash window with two four-pane lights at the left end, and a similar window on the ground floor right, which is now internal to the kitchen extension. The south gable is concealed by vegetation but is believed to be blind.

Inside, the stairs are separated from the main room by a planked partition and a plank door with 18th-century H-L hinges. At the bottom of the stairs, there is a built-in wall cupboard with plank doors on 18th-century strap hinges. Several other doors in the property also retain early strap hinges. The two fireplaces have 20th-century surrounds. The roof structure is partially exposed in the attic, featuring very waney (unsquared) purlins that extend between the gable walls and the wall with the central stack, while the exposed rafters are of thin cross-section and also very waney.