Broadmeadow Hall

Broadmeadow Hall is a mid-17th century farmhouse that was restored in the mid-19th century. It features coursed rough-faced stonework with ashlar dressings and blue machine tile roofs, along with verge parapets. The building has an L-shaped plan and side stacks, standing two storeys high with an attic. The entrance front has two windows and twin gables, with cavetto moulded strings at the first and second floor levels. It includes five-light stone windows that are chamfered, mullioned, and transomed on the ground and first floors, and three-light mullions in the attic under the gables, topped with ball finials. The doorway is round-arched from the 19th century, featuring a cabled surround, a panelled door, and a fanlight, while a 17th-century door head remains in the masonry to the extreme left. The garden front mirrors the entrance front but has smaller windows and a massive stack between the paired gables, with twin cylindrical stone flues that are corbelled out to a square capping, adorned with a moulded string and cornice. The rear front has a similar stack, a gabled stair turret in the return, and a later lean-to. The hall is set in a majestic valley, surrounded by broad meadows. As of June 1984, it was derelict and boarded up, not currently lived in.