Brook House Farmhouse

Brook House Farmhouse is a 17th-century building with a hall and cross wing plan. The entrance is located at the angle where the hall range meets the cross wing. The hall range has been rebuilt at the main frontage; previously, it featured timber framing that was replaced by brickwork, which has been painted to imitate the original framing. Some of the original timber framing is still visible on the rear elevation of this range, and the earlier small-paned iron windows have been preserved, likely early 19th-century additions, consisting of three 2-light casements on the first floor and two 2-light mullioned and transomed windows below. The original roof timbers are also intact.

The farmhouse features a rustic timber gabled porch with chamfered posts and turned balusters on the open-work sides, along with a plank doorway that has a shallow arched lintel. A massive rear wall stack has a rubble base, with the brick shaft rebuilt. The wide cross wing is entirely timber framed, jettied with a moulded bressumer on both elevations, and has close studding with a middle rail and tension bracing on each floor. Herringbone timbers are present on either side of the kingpost in the gable apex. The cross wing also has small-paned iron windows, including a 2-light casement on the first floor and a 2-light mullioned and transomed window below, along with smaller windows alongside and similar windows in the return elevation. There is a massive stack on the rear gable with a rubble base and a rebuilt brick shaft.

Inside, the two rooms in the main range feature stepped stops to chamfered paired axial beams, a chamfered dragon beam, and transverse and axial beams in the principal room of the cross wing. Cambered tie-beams are present in the main range. Despite the rebuilding of the front wall of the hall range, the internal layout and much of the internal timber work remain, and the timber framing of the cross wing is of exceptional quality. Overall, the building retains a significant degree of integrity as a fine timber-framed farmhouse.