BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383828
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383828
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1999
List Entry Name:: BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dent
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 74000 86607

Details

DENT

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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 484260
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.