Broom Hall

Broom Hall is a largely 18th-century country house, exhibiting group value due to its significant architectural and historical interest. The house is constructed primarily of brick, rendered on the exterior, and has hipped slate roofs with wide eaves. It comprises a main residential block, approximately 18.68 metres by 15.44 metres and raised on a paved platform, and a lower service block of the same width and 6.8 metres deep, with a garden room added to the southwest.

The main front, facing southeast, features five window bays with a central entrance sheltered by a seven-bay verandah, which extends along the sides of the block. The verandah has a lean-to fish-scale slated roof supported on cast iron Tuscan columns. The entrance features a pair of partly glazed doors with a decorative lead fanlight, set within a moulded architrave. The windows are 16-paned sashes with concealed boxes and slender iron glazing bars, a later addition. The first floor windows are similar, with a segmental pediment on brackets over the central one, also a later alteration. The second floor has 12-paned single sashes. Boxed eaves are present. Five polished slate steps lead centrally onto a verandah terrace, also slated. The southwest elevation has blind windows on each floor of the front range, while the rear rooms have two bays of windows on each floor. The verandah continues to the wall of the projecting garden room. A pair of glazed doors provide access to a rose garden. The northeast elevation mirrors the design, with the verandah backing onto a wall concealing the external cellar stair. A side entrance, consisting of a panelled door with side lights and a wide decorative fanlight, is located in the fourth bay from the front, reflected in the verandah by a pediment over an arch.

The rear service range is two storeys high, with a hipped roof, various windows (mostly tripartite 12-pane sashes on the ground floor), a central stack, and a fine cupola with an ogee lead roof. A later extension, also with a hipped roof, projects to the southeast, up to the kitchen garden wall.

The internal plan follows a typical design for the period, with an axial entrance hall leading through an arch to a central, rectangular stair hall lit by a large window on the half landing. Reception rooms flank the hall, with stacks on the internal walls. The southwest rear room was likely the dining room, featuring an arched recess and a cornice with a swag frieze. A former opening, now filled with a window, is defined by external pilasters, and provides access to garden steps. Six-panelled doors lead from the hall to the front reception rooms, probably a drawing room and library. These rooms feature moulded chair rails, moulded plaster cornices, and decorative moulded friezes, varying in detail between rooms. The marble fireplaces previously mentioned in records have been removed.