Broom Manor

Broom Manor is a house dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, with a two-storey southwest cross wing added in the early 16th century, a taller 16th-century northwest wing, and a 16th-century hall range on the south side. An inserted floor and chimney were added in the early 17th century, and the south front was refaced in red brick around 1700. A single-storey east kitchen and chimney were added in 1954. The house is timber-framed with roughcast rendering and a red brick front, with chequered brickwork incorporating black headers. It has steep old red tile roofs and red brick chimneys.

The house is L-shaped and faces south. It follows a lobby-entry plan with a central chimney located a third from the east end. A former kitchen is at the east end, featuring a wider fireplace and a stair trap recess in the southeast corner. A parlour to the west has been incorporated into the hall. The main stair is now located in the rear wing, which has a two-bay structure with a north internal gable chimney.

The formal south front features a plinth, floor band, and three large gables with gable parapets linked by eaves. Each gable has a two-light mullioned casement window. There are four larger, flush, two-light mullioned windows with segmented heads and casements to the first floor, arranged in a pattern of 1:2:1, punctuated by upright oval openings; the western one is blocked, and the eastern one is renewed and glazed over a front door. Four similar mullioned cross-windows are on the ground floor, and a two-panel door is set under a flat hood supported by heavy brackets with guttae. A sun firemark, number 97213, is visible at first-floor level. A single-storey plastered kitchen extension with a steep old tiled roof is set back at the east end.

A tall central chimney rises above a rectangular base, with conjoined diagonal shafts. A contemporary gable chimney is on the northwest wing with two diagonal shafts. A capped-off external chimney from the 19th century on the west end may have replaced an older stack. The current entrance is through a panelled door on the east side of the northwest rear wing.

The interior of the south range features chamfered and stopped axial beams. Panelling is in the hall and the chamber above, with two-panel doors and H-hinges. The first floor of the southwest corner, formerly the solar, has hollow moulded curved braces and tie beams across two bays, with a fine three-light mullioned window on the west, exhibiting traceried heads, an iron grille, and ogee-plus-roll mullions rebated for glazing. The narrow east bay of the hall range was partitioned to full height before the chimney was inserted. An iron fireback, marked 'RL 1630' with a broad arrow badge within a wreath and coronet, was found behind a fireplace but may be of foreign origin. The house was formerly known as Broom Farm.