Broughton Farmhouse Outbuildings And Barn Abutting To North

Broughton Farmhouse, along with its outbuildings and barn, forms three sides of a foldyard. The farmhouse dates from the 17th century and was enlarged and altered in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of pink brick in Flemish bond with a cemented dado and features a steeply pitched double Roman tiled roof with coped verges and 20th-century brick stacks at the gable ends. The building is L-shaped, likely consisting of two cells and a cross passage facing west, with a 19th-century rear wing on the north front and lower steeply pitched roof additions at the south gable end. It has two storeys and is arranged in three bays on the left and two bays on the right. The windows are all hollow chamfered mullioned types under hoodmoulds, with two-light windows on the first and ground floors to the left of the entrance and two mullioned and transomed windows to the right. There is a gabled, glazed porch with a half-glazed inner door featuring marginal glazing bars. Although the interior has not been seen, it is believed that the room to the left of the cross passage contains an oval moulded plaster ceiling of unknown date.

The outbuildings date from the late 18th to early 19th century and are attached to the north front of the farmhouse. They are made of blue lias random rubble with a plinth and have a double Roman tiled roof. There is a three-bay loft over a stable oriented north-south, faced in brick and covered by the same corrugated iron roof as the adjacent barn, which is from the 19th century and constructed of squared and coursed blue lias with double doors on the north and south fronts. Together, these structures form a cohesive group of local vernacular architecture around the foldyard.