Listed Building: BROOK FARMHOUSE (281106)

TL 96 SW BEYTON DRINKSTONE ROAD 4/3 Brook Farmhouse -- II Former farmhouse: medieval core with alterations of mid C16, early C17 and early C19. A 2-cell mid C16 range to left, and a much-remodelled medieval section to right. The right hand section of one storey with attics, the left hand of two storeys with attics. Timber-framed and plastered with C20 panels. (The right hand section has rebuilt front and end walls of C19 red brick). Concrete plaintiled roofs: 4 flat-roofed casement dormers. An end chimney of early C17 red brick to left with sawtooth shaft, and an internal C19 chimney af red brick to right. Late C20 casements with leaded lights. C19 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with arch-headed framed and boarded door. The two left hand cells have good mid C16 framing: close-studding with blocked diamond mullioned windows, and one 4-centred arched doorway. Large unchamfered 1st floor joists. In early C17 the walls were raised to give 2 full storeys, and a staircase tower added to rear with ovolo-mullioned windows. The right hand cell has many components from an open hall, but may have been completely rebuilt in C16, and was much altered later. Listing NGR: TL9399262757