Description

SX 86 NW BROADHEMPSTON BROADHEMPSTON
2/69 Lower Well, including garden
- boundary walls and bee-boles to
south
GV II
Former farmhouse, now house. Probably C17 origins, much re-modelled in C19. Rubble
walls with brick dressings to windows at front of main block. Rubble gable end
stacks and tall lateral stack at rear. Grouted slate roof with gable ends.
Plan obscured by later alteration; main house likely to have been 3 room and
through-passage with lower room to right. Hall heated by rear lateral stack, lower
and inner room by gable end stacks. The original purpose of the block to the left
is uncertain; it appears to be C17 and is likely either to have been a separate
cottage or to have formed some sort of annexe to the main house. At present the
main house plan shows the influence of C19 alterations with 2 principal rooms to the
left separated by a stairwell inserted between hall and inner room which formerly
had a door at the front of it. To the right end are the former kitchen and service
rooms. The cottage was of 1 room plan.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical front with cottage to left and main house to the right
which has a higher roof line with shallower pitch. Cottage has 1 window front with
C20 glazed door to the left. C20 2-light casement windows. Main house has 4 window
front and door to right of centre. Centre left window on ground floor is late C20
bow with small panes. Other windows are early-mid C19 16-pane sashes without horns.
C20 part glazed door has C19 rectangular fanlight above. C19/C20 outshuts at rear.
Interior of cottage has 2 substantial cross beams, one is forked at one end, both
are roughly chamfered.
The principal rooms of the main house have C19 features such as panelled doors and
shutters. The middle room has a small open fireplace with plain wooden lintel,
probably C18 and a similar inserted one on the rear of the stack in the outshut.
To include rubble stone garden boundary walls extending to the front from either
side of the house. The one to the south adjoins the road and is very tall. It
incorporates 10 small bee-boles in a row which are curved at the top and have brick
surrounds to the openings. Some have a projecting brick arched dripcourse above.

Listing NGR: SX8080666326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618830

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)