Broome Place

Broome Place is a country house dating to approximately 1700, originally designed by Britten and significantly remodelled and extended in the 19th century by Edmond Tyrel de Poix in 1887. It is constructed of red brick with steeply pitched plain tiled roofs featuring crested ridges. The house has two storeys and attics arranged in a double-pile plan.

The south facade, the main elevation, has seven bays arranged in a 2:3:2 pattern mirroring the design of the original building. The windows are sashes without glazing bars, each with a rubbed arch above. The ground floor features two wide canted outer bays and two sashes flanked by a central square entrance porch. The porch has moulded and fluted brick pilasters supporting an entablature, and a two-leaf half-glazed door with a rectangular tripartite fanlight containing leaded glazing. Balustrades with brick corner piers and stone urn-balusters surround the canted bays and porch. A glazed door provides access from the first floor to the roof of the porch. A dentilled cornice runs below the attic level. The attic windows follow the same 2:3:2 rhythm, with the outer bays grouped under a single gable. Shaped attic gables are set on moulded stone kneelers, and stone balustrades connect the gables. A geometric window is positioned in the roof space. Shaped east and west double gables are present, along with gable chimneys topped with panelled decoration and terracotta details. A chimney stack is located off-centre to the east along the ridge line.

A lower, 19th-century two-storey range extends to the east, featuring sashes without glazing bars and two mullioned windows with Gothic heads. A moulded brick string course runs along the first-floor level. A panelled eaves parapet is topped with four shaped gables. The east gable has a panelled chimney stack, and a central ridge stack. A 19th-century conservatory, measuring approximately 7 x 4 bays, is constructed of timber and iron and is attached to the west gable of the main house.

The north elevation features five bays, including a central square entrance porch with two leaded cross windows on either side of the doorway. Above the doorway is a large 4-light 19th-century staircase window with ovolo moulded mullions and transoms, set within a four-centred rubbed brick arch with a stone dripmould. A shaped gable tops the elevation, incorporating a geometric attic window. The outer bays contain two windows each; these are sashes with glazing bars, with gauged arches and keystones above the openings. Brick pilasters with a dentilled cornice run below the attic level. Shaped attic gables have twin sashes without glazing bars, topped by a low panelled brick parapet. A lower 19th-century range extends to the east, with a large glazed skylight serving the dining room—coping hides the roof.

To the east is a walled courtyard containing a four-centred entrance archway dated E de P 1887. Attached to the south-east corner is a gardener’s cottage constructed of red brick with a black glazed pantile roof, featuring pointed arched windows with leaded lights, an internal chimney stack at the east gable, and decorative bargeboards.

The interior of the main house retains original early 18th-century features, including the plasterwork on the library ceiling, the drawing room fireplace, and dado panelling. A large gilded staircase lantern, originally from Mentmore House, has been incorporated.