Listed Building: COTTAGE FARMHOUSE (282178)

NORTH COVE BROCK LANE TM 48 NE 6/27 Cottage Farmhouse (formerly listed as The 1-9-53 Cottage Farmhouse) - II Farmhouse. Dated 'FB 1622 EB' on first floor window in the left gable end, the 'B' standing for the Brock family. Late C19 alterations. Timber framed core with crowstepped brick gable ends; now roughcast-rendered with a late C19 grey brick facade. Pantiled roof with glazed black tiles to the front slope. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, tripartite sashes with glazing bars; the arches have been removed. Mid C20 wooden entrance porch incorporating the half-round reeded columns and reeded frieze from the former early C19 doorway; within are mid C20 glazed doors and the C19 rectangular fanlight. External stack to rear and a second smaller external stack set against the right gable end. The crowstepped gables have remains of original moulded brick finials; the left gable has 2 original 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows. Listing NGR: TM4659688623