Brockma Gill East

MELBECKS KEARTON SD 99 NE 15/102 Brockma Gill east - II Cottage, at one time divided into 2. Dated 1718. Rubble with stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first floor windows and third blocked. Crude quoins. Central doorway has board door in stone surround of interrupted jambs, with splayed bases and flat rebate around outside surface of opening, and in a panel on the lintel the inscription '1718 MC SC WR IR' with leaf-stop motif. To its right is a blocked doorway with ashlar sandstone surround. Windows to left of door on each floor are square openings with C20 casements, beyond a blocked fire window. Windows to right of door have fragments of flat-mullioned 2-light surrounds. Above doorway, blocked 3-light mullioned window with altered lintel. Interior: 2 good fireplaces: to left with corbelled supports to lintel, to right with an ogee sooker stone, the reckon nearby. A very tight staircase at back left. Derelict at time of re-survey. Cottage to the left not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SD9988099035