Description

UGTHORPE BROOM HOUSE LANE NZ 81 SW (south side) 6/257 Broom House Farmhouse

II Farmhouse, early-mid C18. Finely-coursed herring-bone-tooled sandstone with chamfered alternating block quoins. Pantiled roof with stone ridge, copings and kneelers, brick stacks. Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays with right extension of 2 storeys,l wide bay; facing south. Central original 4-panel door with overlight in alternating - block surround with tall keystone, rising to first floor band; extended voussoirs flank keystone. Windows in raised surrounds with ears, feet and tall keystones: C20 casements on ground floor (probably originally tripartite sashes) and 12-pane sashes on first floor, but without keys. block kneelers; rebuilt end chimneys. Extension has 2 modern casements on ground floor (one in blocked doorway) and 1 above. Right end brick chimney. Small setback 1-storey right extension with boarded door. Small boarded attic openings in right return whose gable end is quoined beneath the copings. Rear elevation to road is rendered, with windows mostly replaced except for 12-pane early C19 stair window. Interior: In left-hand room C20 fireplace is flanked by original cupboards with panelled bases and gothic glazed upper doors framed in pilasters and archivolt with scrolled key. Overmantel panel with ears and feet. Right-hand room has salt and spice cupboards flanking a modern fireplace. Beams in both rooms have quarter-round moulding. Staircase has turned balusters and ramped handrail and there is a panelled landing screen. Doors throughout are original, of 4 fielded panels.

Listing NGR: NZ8080611590

External Links

• Wikidata Q26441553

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)