Broadfield House And Broadfield Farmhouse

DENT

SD78NW DENTDALE 162-1/11/27 (North side) 14/06/84 Broadfield House and Broadfield Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: DENTDALE Broadfield House)

GV II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably late C17 or early C18 in 2 builds, with C19 addition or partial rebuild. Roughly coursed mixed rubble with quoins, stone slate roof; the C19 portion of coursed rubble with rusticated quoins and hipped slate roof. Linear plan on east-west axis, facing south, 2+2 bays of which Broadfield House is the left half and its 1st bay is the C19 portion (perhaps formerly a 2-unit house with another 2-unit range added to the east end and the 1st unit of the earlier then re-built in the C19). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:2:4 windows, with 2 vertical joints. The 2-window C19 portion of Broadfield House, breaking forwards and higher, with a 1st-floor sillband and an eaves corbel-table both carried round, has a tall Tuscan porch to the right protecting a round-headed doorway with panelled door and fanlight with radiating glazing bars, a large 12-pane hornless sash to the left and two C20 double-glazed 12-pane tilting casements above, and its left return has 2 windows on each floor with glazing matching these. This portion has a chimney to the right. Right of this, the earlier and lower portion has a C20 double-glazed window and a blocked doorway or window at ground floor, two 16-pane hornless sashes above, and a quoined vertical joint to the 4-window range (Broadfield Farmhouse). This has a large buttress to the south-east corner, a small gabled porch in the centre, a square 16-pane sash to the left and a 12-pane fixed window left of that, a 16-pane and a 12-pane sash to the right, and at 1st floor a blocked window above the porch flanked by 2 pairs of 12-pane sashes. Ridge chimney in the centre, gable chimney to the right. Rear: full-height outshut to centre and east bays, in 2 builds, the former earlier and containing staircase and former dairy. INTERIOR: Broadfield Farmhouse: stone lateral partition wall with a small blocked fireplace and a bread oven in its east side; lateral beams on both floors; early C18 doglegged staircase with closed string, square newels, turned balusters and moulded handrail; roof with pegged collar trusses (one made of re-used cruck timbers). Broadfield House: C19 portion has marble fireplace; attic of older portion contains prominent corbelled cap of former smokehood at junction with Broadfield Farmhouse (former chimney removed). HISTORICAL NOTE: occupied at the time of her death in 1815 by Emma, widow of General Brownrigg (wall monument in church of St Andrew, Dent, qv); and in the late C19 by members of the Blackmore family (wall monuments in Church of St John the Evangelist, Dent, qv).

Listing NGR: SD7400086607