74A, Broad Street

74A Broad Street is a house built around the mid-19th century. It features gault brick in Flemish bond, with freestone quoins, window arches, and cills. The slate hipped roof has deep eaves and corbel capitals at the corners, with a lion mark below on the left and front sides.

The main block has a two-room plan with small ground floor rooms and an entrance passage leading to a stair tower behind the left room. This stair tower rises to the principal rooms on the first floor, known as the 'piano nobile', and to the chambers above. There is a separate front doorway into a two-storey, one-room plan service wing on the left, which has an outshut on the side.

The symmetrical three-bay main block stands three storeys tall, with all windows featuring keyed stone lintels. The central doorway has a stuccoed architrave with large acanthus console brackets, a flat canopy, a four-panel door, and a small overlight. The ground floor has two 20th-century metal casements, while the first floor has two large fixed windows, each with nine main panes and traceried elliptical heads. The second floor has three small two-light casements and a small stone shield below the central window. The lower two-storey, one-window wing on the left has two-light casements, with a ground floor 20th-century metal replacement and a flush panel door on the right, which also has a rectangular overlight and keyed stone lintels. At the rear, there is a broad slightly advanced stair tower on the right with a narrow window and two round-headed side windows, one of which is blocked.

Inside, much of the original 19th-century joinery remains, including a staircase with stick balusters, a turned newel, a moulded handrail, and panelled doors.

It is reputedly built for Edmund Caxton, Clerk to Ely Union of Guardians, in 1883, which may also be the date of the service wing and possibly the stair tower. Later in the 19th century, it was occupied by one of the cathedral organists.