Broad End Farmhouse

Broad End Farmhouse is a farmhouse that consists of two sections. The left section is a hall range from the second half of the 14th century, while the right section is a parlour addition from the mid-16th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with pantiled roofs. The hall range is 1½ stories high, and the parlour addition is 2 stories. Most of the windows are small-paned casements from the mid-20th century, and the hall range features two gabled dormers. There are two mid-20th century doors, one of which has an open porch. At the junction of the two sections, there is a stack with a plain 16th-century shaft.

The 14th-century range includes an intact former open hall of raised-aisle form along with an adjacent service cell. The main bridging beam of the open truss is slightly cambered and features solid braces to the wall posts, although one brace is missing. It supports cross-quadrate queen-posts with thick, almost solid curved braces to the arcade plates and massive arched braces to the tie beam. Side ties to the wall plates are supported by pairs of braces that meet to form a 2-centred arch. The upper truss has an octagonal crown-post with a moulded base and capital. The service doorways and the front cross-entry doorway all survive, each featuring 2-centred arches, and there is evidence of the original hall windows. The service end has been altered, particularly on the ground floor. A 16th-century inserted floor includes plain or roughly chamfered joists, and the stack was added to the upper end of the hall.

The parlour addition is of high quality, showcasing some heavy close studding. Inside the parlour, a moulded bridging beam with leaf-carved stops is supported by storey posts with carved corbels. The joists in this section are also moulded. The ceiling of the parlour chamber is particularly fine, featuring an arched-braced, slightly cambered bridging beam and three axial beams on each side, two of which are triangular in section. All of these elements, along with the joists and wall plates, are moulded.