Begbroke Hill Farmhouse

Begbroke Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now used as offices, built around 1604 for Humphrey Fitzherbert. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled artificial stone slate roof with moulded kneelers at the stone coping and stone end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Jacobean style, standing two storeys high with an attic and a five-window range.

The central porch is three storeys tall and has pyramidal finials on its stone-coped gable. It includes two- and three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows and a label mould over a chamfered shallow-arched doorway, which has roundels set in the spandrels and a 20th-century door. The farmhouse also features similar three-light and four-light windows, along with two-light windows set in gabled dormers at the end bays, which also have pyramidal finials on their stone-coped gables. The sides and rear of the building have similar windows. There is a 19th-century rear extension and an early 17th-century blocked chamfered pointed arch with moulded imposts leading to a 17th-century cellar at the rear right.

Inside, the porch has a plaster quadripartite vaulted ceiling and a stop-chamfered segmental-arched doorway. The floors are made of stone flags, and the quartered beams to the right have moulded cornices with trailing scrolls and flowers on the soffits of the beams and frieze. The left side features stop-chamfered beams, and there are restored winder stairs at the rear right. The first-floor room on the left has a moulded and arched stone fireplace with sunk spandrels. The roof is a butt-purlin type. In 1604, Fitzherbert was accused of damaging nearby roads due to the frequent use of "late carriages for his buildings."