Brookside With Adjoining Cottage And Former Barn

Brookside comprises a house, adjoining cottage, and a former barn, now used as an outbuilding and flat. The house dates to the late 17th to early 18th century, with alterations in the early 19th century; the cottage was built in 1880, and the barn in 1812. The house and cottage are constructed of rubble, with coursed stone to the house and cottage, and have stone slate roofs. The main house is arranged as a 1:2:3 bay, two-storey building. The central section of the house has quoins to the right-hand side. A part-glazed board door sits within a stone surround featuring base and impost blocks, with rounded inner corners to the lintel. There are 16-pane sash windows with slab sills and lintels. The house has shaped kneeler details, an ashlar coping, and a right-hand end stack. The cottage to the left has a 20th-century casement window and glazed door on the ground floor, and a two-light, hollow-chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould on the first floor. Below the first-floor window is a recessed plaque with raised characters forming a ligature of "A B" and the date "1880". Corniced ashlar end stacks are present. The former barn, to the right, has quoins and a central pair of board doors in a cart opening with a segmental arch of rubble voussoirs. To the left and right of the cart opening are 20th-century part-glazed doors in stone surrounds, with the lintel of the left-hand door bearing the initials "ID" and the date "1812" in recessed lettering and raised characters. The first floor of the barn has casement windows within stone surrounds. At the rear of the house, a two-light flat-faced mullion window and a two-light double-chamfered mullion window are visible on the ground floor, alongside a landing window with a round arch of rubble voussoirs and a hoodmould. The surrounds to two first-floor windows are also double-chamfered mullion style. Inside the house, a ground-floor room to the left features an early 19th century cast-iron fire grate set within a Dent marble surround, flanked by pedimented niches with fluted pilasters, friezes, and paterae in the corners and on the cornice. These niches were formerly cupboards, now with matching doorcases housing doors with six reeded decorative panels, shutters, and window linings. A dairy to the rear of the ground floor has stone shelves. A stone dogleg staircase is present, with stick balusters and bobbin corner posts. The first-floor room of the cottage was previously used as a schoolroom, and original coat pegs remain.