Broom Hall Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Broom Hall Farm House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-dormer-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The house at Broom Hall Farm dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, with extensions added in the later 17th century and alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a tiled roof. The house is a five-bay lobby-entry plan, cruciform in shape, featuring a projecting entrance porch and stair wing, extended to the rear.
The symmetrical front facade has a central, two-storey gabled porch with a four-centred ovolo-moulded entrance arch and a square hood mould. A small 19th-century dual sash window with a chamfered brick mullion and four-centred arched head, and a hood mould, is on the first floor of the porch. Brick kneelers run to the tumbled-in brick gable parapet. The left return of the porch features a similar four-centred arched light on the first floor, which has been blocked. A diagonally set brick course runs along the eaves. The outer bays of the facade have a plinth. Ground floor windows are 19th century, with tripartite sashes in reveals with segmental heads towards the centre, flanking three-light flush frame casements with blocked segmental heads, early leaded panes to the left. The first floor has three-light small sashes with restored chamfered brick mullions and four-centred arched heads. The central ridge has an original tall stack, built in stretcher bond, cruciform in shape with vertical triangulated fillets to the sides and an oversailing cap. The right gable end has a diagonal brick course at the eaves and a cement-rendered surface, with a 20th-century casement, moulded kneelers to a rebuilt stock brick gable with tumbled-in brickwork. The left gable end has a blocked entrance and a door, along with ground-floor tripartite and first-floor small sashes.
A later 17th-century gabled kitchen wing extends to the rear left, featuring an entrance, a 20th-century three-light casement, and a two-light gabled dormer. A 19th-century ridge stack has been inserted in front of the original internal end stack. The rear gable parapet is constructed with tumbled-in brickwork. A low, weatherboarded outshut is located at the rear. To the rear of the main block is a gabled stair wing, with an entrance and upper sash, and moulded kneelers to a tumbled-in brick parapet. A 19th-century stock brick lean-to with a catslide roof is attached to the left of the stair wing, with an entrance on the far left. Another lean-to outshut is incorporated into the kitchen wing to the right of the stair wing.
The interior features an ovolo-moulded, stop-chamfered axial binding beam and a newel stair with upper turned balusters and a moulded handrail.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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