Broadfield House And Broadfield Farmhouse

Broadfield House and Broadfield Farmhouse are a pair of farmhouses, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition or partial rebuild. They are situated on a linear east-west axis facing south. The buildings are constructed of roughly coursed mixed rubble with quoins, with a stone slate roof; the 19th-century section is of coursed rubble with rusticated quoins and a hipped slate roof.

The building originally comprised two blocks of two bays each, with Broadfield House forming the left half. The first bay of this section represents the 19th-century addition, which might originally have been a two-unit house with a further two-unit range added to the east end, and the original first unit subsequently rebuilt in the 19th century.

The 19th-century portion of Broadfield House projects forward and is taller, featuring a first-floor sill band and an eaves corbel table that run around the building. It has a tall Tuscan porch sheltering a round-headed doorway with a panelled door and fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Above are two 12-pane hornless sash windows and two 20th-century double-glazed 12-pane tilting casements. The left return has two windows on each floor, matching the glazing pattern. A chimney is located to the right. To the right of this section, the earlier, lower portion has a 20th-century double-glazed window and a blocked doorway or window on the ground floor. Above are two 16-pane hornless sashes, with a quoined vertical joint marking the division between the earlier and later sections. Broadfield Farmhouse, with a four-window range, has a large buttress to the south-east corner, a small gabled porch in the centre, a square 16-pane sash window to the left and a 12-pane fixed window to its left. Further right are a 16-pane and a 12-pane sash windows; at the first floor is a blocked window above the porch flanked by two pairs of 12-pane sashes. A ridge chimney sits in the centre, while a gable chimney is located to the right. The rear of the building features a full-height outshut spanning the centre and east bays, built in two phases, with the earlier phase containing a staircase and a former dairy.

The interior of Broadfield Farmhouse reveals a stone lateral partition wall containing a blocked fireplace and a bread oven on its eastern side. There are lateral beams on both floors, alongside an early 18th-century dog-legged staircase with a closed string, square newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The roof incorporates pegged collar trusses, with one constructed from re-used cruck timbers. Within the 19th-century portion of Broadfield House, a marble fireplace is present. The attic of the earlier portion contains a prominent corbelled cap, remnants of a former smokehood at the junction with Broadfield Farmhouse, where a chimney has since been removed.

Historically, the property was occupied in 1815 by Emma, the widow of General Brownrigg (memorial in the church of St Andrew, Dent), and later in the 19th century by members of the Blackmore family (memorial in the Church of St John the Evangelist, Dent).