Broad Bottom Old Hall

Broad Bottom Old Hall is a late medieval timber-framed open hall, largely encased in stone during the 16th century. It has a stone slate roof and a two-storey cross-wing. The building is constructed of large dressed stone. Most windows are chamfered mullioned, some retaining cavetto mullions; a particularly notable feature is a three-over-four mullioned and transomed window with a chamfered light to the right. A gabled wing breaks forward, featuring coping with kneelers and a two-light window to the left of the doorway, which has a segmental arched lintel with a chamfered surround leading to an inner-porch. The doorway to the porch has a straight lintel and stop-chamfered surround, and an upper three-light window has two added lights on its right side. A single stack rises from the ridge of the hall range. A projecting rainwater spout is located at the junction with No. 2 Broad Bottom.

Inside, the hall preserves two bays of post-and-truss construction forming aisles. The main hall, spanning one and a half bays, has posts set on stylobats, with curved braces leading to the arcade plate and a tie-beam supporting a Type 1 king post truss. This truss features a tall king post and a wide tie-beam without struts. The original bressumer serves as a post on the opposite side to the fire screen, which has board and muntin panelled detailing, original settle support, a chamfered heck-post, and remains of a fire-hood. The closing truss to the hall also has a king post truss with ‘A’ struts above a close studded wall with remains of wattle infill. A brattished spring-board is visible from the former dais canopy, below which is an oak board and muntin panelled wall. Aisle doorways lead to what was the solar end, now occupied by No. 4 Broad Bottom. A fireplace from the 18th century features a flat arched lintel with corbelled jambs and a chamfered surround. The hall is considered a rare and important survival, and is illustrated in A. Comfort's “Ancient Halls in and About Halifax” (1913). References to the hall appear in publications by C. F. Stell.