Broadridge Farmhouse

Broadridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, although it may incorporate an earlier core, with alterations made in the late 17th century and modernization around 1970. The exterior is plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks and plastered brick chimney stacks, and a slate roof (formerly thatched). Originally a three-room-and-through-passage house facing south, with a service room at the right (east) end, a fourth room was added to the inner room at the left (west) end. The rear passage is now blocked by a 20th-century store room. Disused end stacks and a 19th-century rear lateral stack project to the rear of the inner room, and a lateral stack with an oven projection is visible at the front of the hall. The main front has an irregular five-window arrangement of late 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. A 20th-century replacement door is located immediately to the right of the centre of the passage, and glazed 20th-century French windows are to the left end of the main block, leading to the former inner room. An extension has a renewed monopitch slate roof sloping against the main block and features an early 17th-century oak segmental-headed doorway.

The interior retains many original features. Most exposed internal features date to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. A 20th-century door now leads to the passage. A cob crosswall is present at the lower end, and remains of an oak plank-and-muntin screen are visible in the hall; the muntins are chamfered with keeled step stops on both sides, and incorporate a now-blocked flat-arched doorway. A reused section of late 16th to early 17th-century plank-and-muntin screen blocks the passage. The rear wall of the passage displays a slight alcove, and local memory recalls it as the site of the original staircase, which was removed relatively recently. The upper end of the hall also has a probably 16th-century oak plank-and-muntin screen with chamfered and step-stopped muntins, along with evidence of an original rear doorway. A late 16th to early 17th-century crossbeam is chamfered with keeled step stops, and there is a 17th-century rubble fireplace with an oak lintel soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. The inner room features a 17th-century axial crossbeam with scroll stops. A late 17th-century chamfered door frame (now blocked) once led from the inner room to the extension. The late 17th-century extension contains remains of an original rubble fireplace, a winder stair, and an axial beam, chamfered with runout stops. Its roof has been replaced. On the first floor, the partition wall between the hall and inner room chambers is exposed and comprises a relatively crudely infilled roof truss, originally intended for cob infill and lath-and-plaster cladding, and includes a crank-headed doorway. A late 17th-century doorway from the inner room to the extension is of oak with a bead-moulded surround and contains a plank door with HL hinges. A 17th-century side-pegged jointed cruck truss is present over the hall, unusual in that it has no collar. The service end was reduced in length around 1970, with the end wall rebuilt in breeze blocks and the roof replaced at the same time.