Broomfield is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 September 1961. House.
Broomfield
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stair-khaki
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 September 1961
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gentry house of painted pebbledashed rubble stone with slate roofs. A square block comprising a central 3-storey and basement, 3 window bay block with lower 2-storey wings each side, one of 3 bays and the SW one of 2 bays containing the main entrance. Fluted Tuscan columned portico with modillion cornice, approached by a flight of 9 stone steps from the side. Round-headed panelled door reveal and part-margin glazed doors and radial fanlight. Main floor windows of central block are tripartite, set within segmental headed openings containing a plaster roundel in the tympana, and recessed apron below. Twelve-paned sashes to first floor, with much crown glass. Cornice with frieze embellished with garlands before the attic storey, which has round-headed sash windows. Wide paired modillion eaves.
The wings either side also have 12-pane sashes, but carriage door on left wing. Further panelled doors to rear, and to NE end within panelled reveals, with a further one added by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, and some round-headed windows, one with coloured glass.
Main block contains a drawing room and study, with service rooms in a second range to the rear. Drawing room has a cornice with a 'Welsh Cornice' applied to the ceiling. Panelled doors. Panelled shutters to windows.
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