Broadfield House and Broadfield Farmhouse
BROADFIELD HOUSE AND BROADFIELD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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)
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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