Brookside Farm

Brookside Farm is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century. It features random jointed ashlar stonework, rusticated ashlar quoins, a moulded eaves cornice, coped verges, and a double-Roman tile roof. The building has two 19th-century gabled dormers with casement windows and end rubble stacks topped with brick caps.

The farmhouse is symmetrical, with two storeys and attics, comprising five bays. It has narrow sash windows with glazing bars set in bead moulded stone surrounds. The ground floor windows have cornice dripmoulds, while the central window on the first floor has a semi-circular head, an emphasised keystone, and imposts. The central door opening is framed by a bolection moulded stone surround, featuring a 20th-century reproduction six-panelled door with the top two panels glazed. To the right, there is a pent-roofed outshut with a casement window under a concrete lintel and a two-panelled door with two glazed lights.

Inside, the farmhouse retains much of its mid-18th-century character, including a fine dog-leg staircase with a ramped handrail and turned balusters. There are six-panelled doors on both the ground and first floors, shutters on the ground floor windows, and a room on the left side of the ground floor that features virtually complete panelling and a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround. Some panelling remains in the right ground floor room, and the room on the right side of the first floor has three cupboards with panelled doors. Brookside Farm is a rare example of a complete mid-18th-century house in this area.