Number 2, Broome

Number 2, Broome is a house dating from the 14th or 15th century, which was partly remodeled in the late 17th century and has undergone significant alterations in the late 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame using cruck construction, featuring rendered and painted brick infill on a rendered rubblestone plinth, and has oak shingle hanging on the first floor with an asbestos slate roof. The original layout was that of an open-hall house with at least three cruck-framed bays, which was floored over in the late 17th century, and the eaves were raised with considerable alterations made in the mid to late 20th century.

The building is two storeys high, with some framing visible on the ground floor, displaying irregular square and rectangular panels with long straight tension braces, and a cruck truss that is partly visible at the right gable end. The first floor has three late 20th-century casement windows, with gables breaking the eaves, and one casement window on the ground floor to the right of a 19th-century boarded door. An early 19th-century leaded casement window survives at the rear. The former roof line can be seen at the left gable end, which has a late 20th-century red brick top to an integral rubblestone end stack, with its width indicated by stone on the front wall.

Inside, two true cruck trusses are exposed, although the one at the right gable end is not visible from the inside. The right truss features a cambered collar, while the left has peg-holes for former arch bracing. The ground-floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams with broach stops. The centre cruck truss is cut through by an oak winder staircase leading to the front. The first floor has oak floorboards, and it is said that the apexes of the cruck trusses survive in the roof space, although they were not inspected during the last survey in September 1986.