Broadward Hall is a Grade II Listed building, being largely a 19th-century remodelling of an 18th-century house, with a castellated Gothic appearance.

Broadward dates back much earlier however, and was a medieval settlement with township status within the Clungunford parish.

For more than 20 years the hall has been the private residence of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lyle Skyrme and their family.

Once part of the Hopton Castle Estate, for 200 years the hall was the home of the Bayley family.

At the end of the 19th Century the Moreton family, and before them The Marquis de Biddlecope, lavished money on the latest gardening innovations, glasshouses, heating boilers etc.

Cyprian de Biddlecope was the owner of Broadward in 1895. He came from Pennsylvania but also had strong connections with Italy, being a Marquis of the Holy See and a Baron of the Kingdom of Italy. He is listed in the archives of Messenger, who built the original greenhouses, installed heating and built the orangery in slip garden.

However, the walled garden fell into serious disrepair during the early 20th century. By the First World War the garden’s glory days were over.

The hall continues principally as a much loved and happy home, and there remains a farming estate, with sheep, cattle and orchards. Over the last two decades Anthony and Caro have embarked on a plan to gradually revive the gardens, with an eye to the surroundings and nature but also providing an appropriate setting for the hall.

There is a Bronze Age settlement on “Lower Moor”, from where the “Broadward Hoard” finds are kept in the British Museum.