Brook Farmhouse

Brook Farmhouse is a 2½-storey, three-unit plan farmhouse, primarily constructed of hand-moulded brick, whitened to the front, and dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It has a slate roof with brick stacks located at the left end, to the left of the centre (serving the former hall), and on the eaves of the projecting right-hand gabled bay. The main range features projecting gabled bays, creating a shallow U-shaped layout, to which a rear wing was added later. The front of the farmhouse has a small central bay, originally the hall, with a replacement half-glazed door situated to the right of centre. Windows, not aligned in the central bay, have segmental heads in the lower storey, all replacements in earlier openings, and include wood-framed casements in the lower left and central bays. The brickwork of the right-hand bay's first floor is 20th-century machine-moulded, and the gable is roughcast, concealing earlier timber framing.

The right-hand gable return of the main range showcases largely original brickwork, with exposed timber framing at the gable apex, featuring a tie-beam with struts to the collar. The gabled bay has been re-faced in 20th-century brickwork, as is the rear of the main range to the left of the rear wing. The left-hand return features a blocked doorway in the advanced gabled bay, which has been converted into a window. Earlier brickwork is visible to the rear of the main range to the right of the wing, along with a later lean-to at ground floor and a replacement window beneath the eaves.

The rear wing has a slightly lower roofline than the main range and is two-storied, with dentil eaves and a slate roof with an end brick stack. Facing the yard to the west, it has replacement windows in earlier openings, with a segmental head in the lower storey. A small brick lean-to is also present at the left gable end of the house.

The central room, originally the hall, contains a large timber fireplace lintel with beaded moulding, and two spine beams. A single post of a partition remains on the back wall, indicating the possibility of earlier timber framing in the rear of the house. The right-hand room, likely the parlour, includes a boarded door from the hall in a moulded wooden surround, indicating a probable timber-framed partition, and a spine beam retaining an ogee stop. The left-hand room also features two spine beams. A straight 19th-century service stair with plain balusters is located behind this room. Within the rear wing is an ovolo-moulded cross beam.

The main quarter-turn stair from the hall has been enclosed, but its moulded handrails, of an uncertain date but resembling 17th-century style, remain visible. Stop-chamfered joists are located above the staircase. In the upper storey, one 18th-century door has two fielded panels. In the rear wall are two sawn-off timber fragments, possibly remains of base crucks. A dog-leg stair leads to the attic, at the top of which is a 17th-century newel with a finial. One closed roof truss includes queen posts and a collar beam, and the roof retains plain windbraces to the rear slope. A second, plainer 19th-century attic stair, over the left-hand room, was probably a service stair.