Brooklet House

Cottage, early C18 with later alterations.

MATERIALS: Coursed sandstone rubble, timber lintels, pantile roof and a brick stack.

PLAN: Two-cell with central stack, entrance in line with the staircase adjacent to the south gable end. Each cell is partitioned to create a small service room to the rear; that in the southern cell opened up with a C20 archway. Brooklet House was possibly created from two single-cell cottages, the northern cottage being gable entry from a cross passage shared with Rose Cottage. The attic floor of Brooklet House extends as a flying freehold over this cross passage.

EXTERIOR: Front: plank door to the right end of the elevation, protected by an open, gabled, timber porch. Two ground-floor windows, both horizontal sliding Yorkshire sashes with two lights of six small panes, with slightly smaller two-light Yorkshire sashes (with sashes of two panes) directly above lighting the attic. Central stack appears to have been heightened in the C19 or early C20. Undulating ridgeline. Rear: a Yorkshire sash with two four-pane lights is at the left end of the elevation, with a similar window to the ground floor right now being internal to the kitchen extension. South gable concealed by vegetation at time of survey, but believed to be blind.

INTERIOR: The stairs are separated from the principal room by a planked partition and a plank door hung on C18 H-L hinges. At the foot of the stairs there is a built-in wall cupboard with plank doors on C18 strap hinges. A number of other doors in the property also retain early strap hinges. The two fireplaces have C20 surrounds. The roof structure is partially exposed within the attic with very waney (unsquared) purlins extending between the gable walls and the wall including the central stack. Exposed rafters are of thin cross-section and are also very waney.