Bracken Bottom Farmhouse

Bracken Bottom Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limewashed rubble with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and four bays. The gable end faces the street and has a central entrance with plain jambs, projecting imposts, and a basket arched lintel above a six-panel door. To the right of the entrance, there is a three-light recessed flat-faced mullioned window on both the ground and upper floors, featuring slate dripstones and 20th-century casements.

On the garden front, there is a mid-20th-century lean-to porch to the right of the entrance. To the left, a four-light recessed flat-faced mullioned window has slate dripstones, two-pane casements, and fixed lights. On the ground floor to the right, there is a large late 19th-century two-light recessed flat-faced mullioned window with sashes and glazing bars. The upper floor features a two-light recessed flat-faced mullioned window to the left of centre, while the right side has a former three-light window, now reduced to two lights with only the left-hand mullion remaining, and a single light that was probably originally two lights but now has a mid-19th-century surround with casements and fixed lights. The left-hand side has a shaped kneeler and coping, with a gabled end and a chimney stack at the gable end of the 19th-century heightened part of the farmhouse.

Inside, the right-hand room on the ground floor contains a dado and a panelled end wall from around 1780, which incorporates five-panel doors and a remarkable cupboard with a segmental curved back, a keyed round arch, and shaped shelves. The room features fluted Doric pilasters and a full entablature with paterae in the metopes, a scrolled pediment enriched with egg and dart detailing on the soffit, and paterae flanking a pineapple within a vase. There is also a dentilled cornice and a moulded plaster ceiling, likely from the early 18th century, with a plaster overmantle of similar date.