The Broadway

The Broadway is a house that has been divided into two properties. It has a core from the 17th century and a front that was added in the 19th century, with restoration occurring in the later 20th century. The building is timber-framed and faced with 19th-century red brick, topped with plaintiles.

It stands two storeys high with attics and features a two-window range. The windows are 16-pane sashes set in shallow reveals, with stucco flat arches and stone sills. No. 8 has a slightly larger 16-pane sash on the ground floor, while No. 9 includes a late-19th-century inserted three-light lead-covered flat canted bay, with the main window featuring vertical glazing bars only. A stone band runs between the two storeys, and there is a slightly recessed rendered blank panel between the two upper windows. The building has two segmental-headed dormers with two-light casement windows that have horizontal glazing bars.

The central entrance doorways are paired and have semicircular stucco arches with blank fanlights above. The doors are from the 20th century. There are two chimney stacks at the rear. Although the front was updated in the mid-19th century to match Nos. 6 and 7, slight differences in the roofline and level indicate that this was originally a separate house.

Inside No. 8, the ground floor features a main post at the front, which shows evidence of a former jetty, along with one main post from the original rear wall and a chamfered ceiling beam. In the front upper room, the studding with tension braces, main beam, and wallplate are exposed. Both upper rooms have ornate cast-iron grates. The attic is divided into two bays with straight collars and covered rafters. There is a blocked door in the partition wall on the east side, and the west wall is part of the adjoining house, No. 7, with the end of a collar purlin protruding. Access to No. 9 is not possible.