Broomhill House

Broomhill House is a two-storey, roughly L-plan house built between 1914 and 1919, with an addition made around 1935, designed in the Arts and Crafts tradition by architect Balfour Paul from Edinburgh. The house features a later wing that creates a U-plan rear court, which is accessed through a pend that passes under the drawing room extension from circa 1935. The exterior is constructed of random mixed granite with tooled grey granite ashlar dressings.

The entrance is off-centre on the north elevation and features a pale grey granite moulded doorpiece. The south garden front is asymmetrical, showcasing a wide partially glazed verandah beneath a catslide roof, which is topped with a three-window box dormer adorned with floral embossed lead linking panels. To the left, there is a wide three-light window that illuminates the sitting room, formerly the drawing room. The west elevation is gabled and includes two ground floor canted bay windows. At the northwest corner, there is a tall, four-bay first floor drawing room wing with four long windows that break the wallhead beneath piended gables and a pend below.

The east elevation is gabled, and there is a rear service wing. The first floor windows break the wallhead under piended gablets, and the property features multi-pane glazing throughout. The service court is enclosed by a high coped wall, with an entrance flanked by round rubble gate piers topped with circular caps. There is also a lean-to outbuilding designed as a lectern dovecote, complete with an angle ball finial on the rear wallhead. The roof is finished with end and ridge coped stacks, including a wallhead stack on the drawing room wing with a shaped scroll base, and kneelers at the gables, all covered with local slate.

Inside, the entrance lobby features beams and leads to an inner stair hall with large chimneypieces. The sitting room includes a simple carved chimneypiece with a tiled surround. The later first floor drawing room opens from the staircase and is a large, long barrel vaulted room with a ribbed plaster ceiling, decorated with a shell and seaweed design. The room also has a moulded ceiling cornice and a mural semi-circular niche with a shell head. A 17th century style lugged marble chimneypiece, featuring carved oak leaf detailing on the cornice and mantel with egg and dart decoration, completes the interior.