Building record 1073800000 - 9-11 Brookside

Grade II. Row of three cottages. Early C18. Rubble stone, timber lintels to openings, thatch roof, five brick stacks, one with thin bricks. One-and-a-half storeys. Barred wooden casements. No. 9 is double fronted with one window under thatch eyebrow to left; 3-light casements to left, 2-light to right, central board door. No. 10 has one bay with 2-light casements to ground floor and under thatch eyebrow, board door to left. No. 11 has three bays with 2-light casements in outer bays and in two gabled dormers to left. Central ground floor bay has 3-light casement and round oven projection to right. Modern door between right-hand bays. RCHM II p. 172 MON 5 (B1).
Nos. 9-10: These two cottages have an interesting interlinked history. Both are of coursed rubble limestone, one and a half storeys high, thatched but with a small but distinct change in ridge height. No.9 started out as a two-bay, timber framed building aligned north-south along Brookside, built in the first half of the 17th century. The main downstairs room (the present dining room) was a heated hall whilst the other, a service room, had a cross passage against the central partition. In the 18th cnetury the house was encased in stone and a third bay with a fireplace was addd to the south, th epresent No.10, abutting the gable of the neighbouring No.11. Doorways were cut in the common partition wall to access the extension. At the same time, the north bay was extended towards the road and a fireplce built against the gable wall. The resulting three-bay house was subsequently divided into two dwellings, the two-bay No.9 and the single-bay No.10, probably in the early 19th century. They remain as to dwellings today but under single ownership (B2).
No.11: Of coursed rubble limestone, one and a half storeys high and aligned north-south along Brookside, this thatched cottage was originally of two bays and built around 1700. Only one of the downstairs rooms, the hall, was heated, the other being a service room. In the 18th or 19th century a third bay was added at the south end, its downstairs room having an unusually high ceiling, possibly a workshop or storeroom. The building has been much altered over the years and much detail is missing or concealed. Analysis and dating of the different stages in the development of the house can only be tentative because of the lack of dating evidence (B2).