BROOMFIELD ASHFORD ROAD TQ 85 SW [south side] 2/5 The Park Gate Inn GV II Inn. Early 16th century with late 16th/early 17th century and later alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor clad in brick in Flemish bond to left of door, English bond to right. First floor and wing rendered. Plain tile roof. Main range of 5 timber-framed bays. Later additions to front and rear of left end bay form projecting cross-wing; rear part late 16th/early 17th century. Rear return wing to right. 2 storeys. Roof of left wing hipped to front. Roof of main range half hipped to right, hip returning along wing, which has higher eaves and ridge. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre and ridge stack towards front of right wing. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; small single light under eaves to left, against junction with wing, and two 3-light casements. 2 small canted bays to ground floor. Ovolo-moulded mullion windows to rear. Late 19th or early 20th century brick porch well to right of stack, with plain bargeboards and half-glazed door. Blocked doorway to right of it. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed beams. Gunstock-jowled posts. Moulded crown-post on moulded tie-beam towards right end of front range. Listing NGR: TQ8385053724