Towered Gatehouse to Broom Hall

The gateway is conceived in the form of a triumphal arch of which the central section is raised as a tower. Built of rubble stonework, but ashlar gritstone facings to the lowest storey. A central round-headed carriageway with flanking 'pedestrian' arches, the E containing the stair to the upper floors. The central arch has finely jointed voussoirs, the skew-backs stepped and coursed in, and a central keystone, and similar arches to the side openings. Above the central arch a faint inscription reads R JONES Esqr / 1830, set immediately below the horizontal string course. The first floor is of equal width for part of its height, and has a pair of round-headed windows with 18-pane sashes and coloured glass set in lead decorative fanlights. Above the string the tower narrows to a square plan, the second stage having a similar pair of windows. Above a further string the tower offsets to the third and top stage, which has a clock face and two round-headed louvred openings to the upper bell stage. The tower is capped by a pyramidal slated roof and carries a central weather vane on a scrolled iron support. The N elevation is identical, but the side openings have retained their bead-panelled doors and glazed fanlights.

The first floor contains a square room with a carved slate fireplace, a moulded cornice and a ceiling rose. From here a stair with plain stick balusters rises to the 2nd floor, without embellishments, and from where a further stair rises to the third floor. This is matchboard lined and has the clock mechanism in a central box (part removed for safe keeping). A further identical stair leads to the bell chamber, the bells also removed. King-post and single tie beam roof.