Brook Cottage

Brook Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th to early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The rear of the house has a timber frame with plastered infill, while the front was rebuilt in the 19th century using brick, now colourwashed. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with brick chimneys on either side; the one on the right is external and the one on the left was rebuilt in the 20th century. The house is one-and-a-half storeys high and has two bays. The ground floor has three 20th-century paired wooden casement windows with segmental heads, another in the thatch to the left, and a single light in the thatch to the right. A 20th-century door with a segmental head sits between the right-hand windows. A further bay was added to the left, rendered and colourwashed, with a tiled roof, and containing a main door within a thatched porch. Inside, the ground floor room on the left has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and a cambered fireplace lintel, also chamfered. The fireplace to the right has been altered. The chimney stack hides a 17th-century three-light upper window with diamond mullions. Cambered collar beams sit on queen strut trusses, and there are diagonal wind-braces throughout.