Broad Lane Farm East Farmhouse

The farmhouse, now a house, dates to the later 17th century and has been altered since. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a composition tile roof. The building has a roughly L-shaped layout, comprising a main range with a three-unit hearth passage plan and a short wing at the east end. It extends three storeys in height, featuring five windows on the first floor of the south front. This elevation has dripcourses on two levels, the lower ones stepped down in the third bay. A Tudor-arched doorway is centrally located in the third bay, framed by a moulded surround and deep lintel. Double-chamfered mullioned windows are present; these have two, two, three, and two lights on the left side and four lights on the right side of the main floor, with the ground floor windows of the third and fifth bays having lower sills. A small two-light window is placed above the fourth window on the second floor. A large ridge chimney is situated slightly left of the doorway, and there are substantial external chimneys with offsets at both gables. The left gable includes a later inserted door at ground floor level. The right gable has a three-light window reduced to one light to the rear of the chimney stack, with another window at the first floor reduced to two lights. Smaller chamfered windows on two levels are present on each side of the stack to the second floor/attic. The continued return wall of the wing features a single-light window at ground floor and a two-light window above. The rear gable has a single-storey outbuilding addition at ground floor level (which is not of special interest), as well as two single-light windows at first floor and another at attic level. The gable coping is finished with kneelers and an apex chimney. The rear of the main range includes an external staircase leading to a doorway positioned between the first and second floors, close to the angle with the wing. A two-light stair window is located beneath, and two-light mullioned windows are found on all levels. Except at attic level, all windows on the sides and rear have straight dripmoulds above them. The interior retains traces of a former back doorway opposite the front door. A blocked stone staircase is found to the rear of the chimney stack, although the lower flight has been removed and replaced by a wooden staircase intruding into what would have been the kitchen in the third bay. A large stone-arched fireplace is situated in the gable wall at this end, and there is external access to a second-floor store via a doorway in the rear wall.