Building record 1073900000 - 18 - 19 BROOKSIDE

Grade II. Pair of cottages. C18. Rubble stone, timber lintels to openings. Thatch roof with eyebrows over upper windows, flanking and central brick chimneys. One-and-a-half storeys. Each cottage double fronted with central board door No. 18 has old barred wooden casements to ground floor, C20 barred casements to attic and No.19. Central thatched round oven projection (B1).
No.18: This two-bay, stone built and thatched cottage of one and a half storeys began as a timber-framed building. From light smoke-blackening of surviving roof timbers, and the style of carpentry, a date no later than 1600 would seem appropriate for the earliest phase. In the 17th century there was a major refurbishment when the external wall were replaced in stone, a fireplace inserted and the downstairs rooms floored over to provide two chambers. In the 18th century the roof was raised to give more attic space (B2).
No.19: This limestone thatched cottage of two bays and one and a half storeys was built in the early 18th century abutting onto, and sharing a common gable wall with no.18. it is a mirror of its neighbour in terms of plan, window and door positions (B2).