Broomshields Hall

Broomshields Hall is a house, now divided into three separate residences, dating to the early 18th century, with further development around 1850. The site was previously the location of a Greenwell family home from the late 15th century. The construction is of coursed squared rubble sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings, with roofs covered in graduated grey slate (the earlier roof was stone-flagged).

The building has an irregular plan, with an original central block that has left-hand additions extending to the rear and right-hand additions projecting forward. The east elevation comprises a main block of two low storeys and four bays, and a service wing to the right, in five bays including a one-storey, four-bay coach house and stable, and a lower, three-bay outbuilding. A further left-hand extension, at a higher level, is two storeys high with one bay, and a left return of three bays with a further set-back three-bay block linked by a porch.

The main house features a plain stone surround to a Tudor-headed door in the fourth bay, with a wood-bracketed hipped hood above. It includes small, late 19th-century sash windows, paired in the second bay, within architraves. A steeply-pitched roof is topped with three hipped dormers, each with a ball finial, and three ridge chimneys are present at the ends and to the left of the door. The service wing on the right has varied window placement and a half-glazed door, with ridge chimneys. The left-hand addition has one sash window with glazing bars on each floor, set in moulded stone surrounds with bar-stopped chamfers, all under a hipped roof. The right-hand wing projecting forward has a sash window with glazing bars, two keyed vehicle arches with alternate-block jambs, and plain stone surrounds to two boarded doors in the lower extension. A left light with a flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill is also visible. The left return displays varied surrounds to sash windows with glazing bars; an extruded porch includes a Tuscan doorcase and a half-glazed double door.

Internally, the main house has a low-relief stucco panel depicting groups of animals and hunting figures in a late 17th-century style, above the principal fireplace. Chamfered beams are visible in the main room. An attic includes a Tudor-arched stone fire in a bolection-moulded surround. The 19th-century wing incorporates a reused 17th-century staircase, with twist balusters, a close string, and a grip handrail. Early 18th-century panelling and a high-quality chimneypiece are found in one ground-floor room. The origins of these interior features are currently unknown.