Listed Building: BROOMVALE FARMHOUSE (433488)

LITTLE BLAKENHAM A1100 ROAD TM 14 NW 7/58 Broomvale Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C16 core with major alterations of early C19 and early C20. A C19 range has the main entrance front facing south, of 2 storeys and 3 windows. Painted brick. Plaintiled roof with external end chimney. Windows with flat arches of gauged brick; small-pane sashes at upper storey, French windows with louvred shutters at ground storey. 6-panelled entrance door, the upper panels glazed. Reeded architrave and pentice board on slender brackets. A 2-storey C16 range became the rear service wing in C19, but it comprises the original hall and service cell: timber framed and plastered, with some C18 herringbone pargetting in panels. Some good C18 windows on the west elevation, of 3 lights with transomes and iron casements, those at 1st storey with leaded lights. The ground floor window has a pair of boarded shutters. The twin service rooms have good exposed framing of early C16 or possibly C15, partly rebuilt in mid C16 with a roll-moulded bridging joist and chamfered common joists. the hall may also have been rebuilt at this time. A large 2-storey extension of c.1930 to rear. Listing NGR: TM1217749108