Broomfield Farmhouse

This is a late 17th-century country farmhouse, located on Giantswood Lane in Somerford Booths. It is built of red Flemish bond brick and coursed rubble, with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. The entrance front has six bays, with five arranged symmetrically, all built at the same time. A porch wing is positioned to the right of centre, featuring a round archway to the ground floor, constructed with brick voussoirs and a keystone, topped with a flat, cambered brick hood-mould. Above the archway is a cross-window. Below the main building is a basement with walls of coursed rubble and ashlar quoins to the corners. The basement windows have chamfered ashlar surrounds with mullions; most are two-light, except for a single-light window on the far left. String courses run around the building, separating the basement from the first floor, and the ground floor from the first and attic floors. Ashlar quoins mark the four corners. The ground floor has cross windows to the left and right of the porch, with a single-light window on the far left. The first floor mirrors this pattern. A substantial chimney stack is located to the left of centre. The right-hand gable end has a large, central chimney stack with a battered lower section that transitions to a rectangular body, featuring ashlar quoins at the corners. The top courses and flues are of 19th-century Ruabon brick, with a cogged band. To the left of this stack are blocked ground and first-floor window openings, along with a single-light basement window with a chamfered ashlar surround.

Inside the porch is a plank door with coffin-nail decoration and incised strap hinges. The central hallway features a five-flight staircase. The lowest flight, leading to the basement, has elaborately carved and pierced splat balusters and a moulded handrail. The remaining four flights have spiral twist balusters, newel posts, a moulded handrail, and moulded facing boards to the treads. The top landing features splat balusters with a waved outline. The ground floor rooms on either side of the hallway are accessed via pairs of double doors, each with two bolection-moulded panels. One set of doors also has a panelled door surround with Ionic capitals. The ground floor rooms have ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with ogee end stops.