Brodenhill Farmhouse

Brodenhill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with remodelling likely in the early 17th century, and the addition of a new farmhouse in the late 19th century built onto the original structure. The rear range is constructed from rendered stone rubble and cob, with a slate roof and gable ends. A rendered stack is located at the left gable, and a tall rear lateral hall stack with a tapered cap heightened in brick is also present. The 19th-century range is of unrendered stone rubble with brick dressings and a hipped slate roof, featuring lion's head guttering and brick stacks at each end.

The original farmhouse range at the rear is of a three-room and cross-passage plan. Originally an open hall house, it features a thick cob wall separating the hall from a narrow inner room, which appears to have been originally open to the roof. A thick cob wall partition is present on the lower side of the cross-passage, with the lower end possibly rebuilt in the 17th century. In the late 19th century, a completely new farmhouse was built backing onto the original range towards its lower end, with a symmetrical two-room and central stairhall plan.

The front range has a three-window facade. It features four-paned sash windows, brick quoins, and cambered lintels with keystones. A cast iron porch with slender spiral twist colonnettes supporting a canopy bracketed with mythical beasts, anthemion acroteria, and brattishing is also present, along with a six-panelled door with glazed upper panels. The projecting left end of the original range has two 19th-century two-light casements with six panes per light to the upper storey.

The interior of the original range has been largely altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. A chamfered axial beam remains in the hall. The hall and inner room fireplaces were blocked in the 20th century and both had bread ovens. The inner room formerly had a staircase to the rear left-hand corner, which was replaced with a 19th-century staircase in the passage. The roof structure includes a single raised cruck truss over the hall, with two tiers of trenched purlins and diagonally set ridge purlins. Rafters survive to the rear side, with only the ridge surviving in the inner room. A single tier of purlins only survives over the lower end, with no sign of smoke-blackening. All surviving timbers over the hall and inner room are thoroughly smoke-blackened. The 19th-century joinery is intact in the added front range.