Broomvale House

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TM 14 NW 7/58

LITTLE BLAKENHAM BRAMFORD ROAD Broomvale House

(Formerly listed as Broomvale Farmhouse, A1100 ROAD)

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 two storeys and three 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. Six-panelled entrance door, the upper panels glazed. Reeded architrave and pentice board on slender brackets. A two 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 three lights with transomes and iron casements, those at first 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 two storey extension of c.1930 to rear.

Listing NGR: TM1217749108