Brockabank

Brockabank is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, and has late 16th-century origins. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and a stone slate roof. The building is aligned east-west and was originally a lobby entry. In the 17th century, a north wing was added, flush with the west gable, and a recessed south wing was created that contains a repositioned entrance.

The farmhouse has two storeys and five bays. The fourth bay features a reused round-headed entrance with chamfered surrounds and moulded impost blocks, leading to a circa 1970 plank door. To the right of this entrance is a ground floor four-light double chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, along with two upper floor two-light double chamfered mullioned windows. The gabled bay to the left includes two ground floor and one upper floor two-light double chamfered mullioned windows, all with hoodmoulds and heavily restored in the late 19th century.

The two left-hand bays are a mid-17th-century addition, featuring a ground floor eight-light double chamfered mullioned window with a king mullion and hoodmould, where only the stops appear to be from the 17th century; the rest is late 19th century. On the upper floor, there are two four-light double chamfered mullioned windows. The eaves are adorned with late 18th or early 19th-century shaped modillions. The windows have 20th-century casements and fixed lights. The gable end has coping and ball finials on the kneelers, with ridge and central ridge stacks on the left-hand gable end, and a former gable end stack on the right now at the junction with the former barn, which is now part of the house. The left-hand return features upper floor round-headed chamfered windows on either side of the chimney flue.

Inside, there is a central early to mid-18th-century kitchen fire surround with a flat-arched lintel in the position of the original stack. The left-hand room contains a mid-17th-century inglenook fireplace with a raised chamfered surround and a basket arch made of 11 voussoirs, along with moulded impost blocks.