Brook Farmhouse

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SO 75 NE BROADWAS CP BROMYARD ROAD (south side)

3/14 Brook Farmhouse 12.11.51.



II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C16, with late C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with part painted brick and part rendered wattle- and-daub infill, brick replacement walling, tiled roofs, sandstone ashlar chimney with 4 diagonal brick shafts. Two-bay main range, having baffle entry and 2-bay cross-wing at west gable end. Mainly large square panels, 5 from sill to wall-plate, close-set vertical studs above doorway. Two storeys and attic. Front elevation Main range has 2 ground and 2 first floor casements, regularly spaced, and central planked doorway; cross-wing has C20 metal garage doors and a first floor casement. Interior: Roof has queen strut trusses with an intermediate raking strut truss to cross-wing; single, trenched purlins. Back-to-back fireplaces in 2 ground floor rooms of main range; fireplace on west side formerly included a bread oven. First floor room to west of main range has moulded plasterwork at ceiling edges and main beams have parallel mouldings stopped by tongue. Late C19 outshut to rear.

Listing NGR: SO7613755124

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0309 IOE Records taken by John Burrows; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr John Burrows. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project