Inglenook

Inglenook is a house located on Richmond Road in Brompton-on-Swale, dating from around 1733, though it may have earlier origins. The building features coursed rubble construction and a pantile roof with a course of stone slates at the eaves. It has two storeys and two first-floor windows, with quoins at the corners. The central entrance has a part-glazed four-panel door set within an ashlar architrave, topped by a tripartite keystone and an ashlar pedimented door-case, which is supported by Roman Doric pilasters and has triglyphs on the frieze. The windows are four-pane sash types, framed in plain ashlar surrounds. The roof features shaped kneelers and ashlar copings, with brick stacks at the ends.

Inside, the ground-floor room to the left includes an inglenook fireplace with a spere to the right and a salt-box in a recess to the left, which has a fielded-panel door with butterfly hinges. The interior also boasts stop-chamfered beams and a splat-baluster staircase leading to a decorated plaster ceiling in the stairwell, featuring a circular panel and a dentilled cornice with an acanthus motif. The doors on the first-floor landing are of three fielded panels. In the left front room on the first floor, a staircase to the roof-space winds tightly around a recess to the left of the chimney-stack.

The historical records of the house date back to 1733, which aligns well with its facade, although it may be older. It is believed to have been an inn at one time, as evidenced by a small cellar beneath the staircase and unusually wide doors in the passage leading from the spere to the back kitchen. One internal door even had "Taproom" painted on it. Additionally, there is a well located in the garden. Local tradition suggests that the elaborate door-case was salvaged from the nearby Roman settlement of Catteractonium.