Broadlands

CLYST HYDON AUNK ST 00 SW 2/9 Broadlands - GV II

Small farmhouse. Early - mid C16; a late C16 - early C17 improvement, a major late C17 refurbishment, modernised in the late C19 and again circa 1980. Plastered local C17 brick with some earlier plastered cob; stone rubble and brick stacks and the C17 brick chimneyshaft have been much repaired since; thatch roof. Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan house built on level ground facing north. At the right (east) end is a parlour with a gable-end stack. Next to it is the passage. The large central room was the kitchen originally and it has an axial stack backing onto the unheated left (east) end room which was formerly the dairy or buttery. The dairy may be secondary; if not it was largely rebuilt in the C19. The rest of the house is basically the result of a major late C17 refurbishment although some earlier features were incorporated. 2 storeys with a lean-to outshot on the left (east) end. Exterior: regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The central two first floor windows have late C17 oak frames; they are 3 lights with chamfered mullions. The central and right ground floor windows also have late cli oak frames but are missing their mullions. The centre window has a low segmental arch over. The passage front doorway is right of centre and it contains a C20 door behind a contemporary porch with a monopitch shingled roof. The main roof is gable-ended. Interior: the former dairy end has only plain C19 carpentry detail. The kitchen has a large stone rubble fireplace with a chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. The axial beam here is chamfered with scroll stops but is west (passage) end has been removed to accommodate the C20 stair. According to the owner there was an oak plank-and-muntin screen between the kitchen and passage before the circa 1980 modernisation. There is still an oak plank-and-muntin screen on the parlour side of the passage. It is late C16 - early C17 and the parlour side has contemporary paintwork, a geometric pattern of intersecting lines around bunches of flowers. The parlour fireplace is late C17; it is plastered brick with a curving pentan and has a chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. The crossbeam is chamfered but the stops have been hacked off. A section of the roof remains from the early - mid C16 farmhouse. It is carried on 2 side-pegged jointed crucks. These trusses along with the purlins, common rafters and most of the battens are smoke-blackened from the original open hearth fire. It seems that when the house was refurbished in the late C17 these trusses were left standing whilst the original walls were demolished and new brick walls erected. Each end of this C16 roof are late C17 A-frame trusses.

Listing NGR: ST0468000319