Broomhills
BROOMHILLS, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1064775
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Broomhills
- Statutory Address:
- BROOMHILLS, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1064775
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Broomhills
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOMHILLS, MILL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BROOMHILLS, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rickinghall Inferior
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04087 76410
Details
RICKINGHALL INFERIOR MILL LANE (SOUTH EAST TM 07 NW SIDE) 1/118 Broomhills (formerly 15.11.54 listed as Broom Hills) GV 11* Large house, formerly Dower House of Redgrave Hall (demolished). c.1700 probably for Sir J. Holt, extended C19. Red brick with vitrified headers, plastered timber frame to rear. Clay lump and red brick additions. Steeply pitched plaintiled roofs with pantiles to rear. 7 bay front range with original stair bay and 2 service additions to rear. 2 storeys and attic. Vitrified headers to most of symmetrical facade with red brick bands around openings: central entrance with glazed doors, lugged architrave with an early C19 pseudo-Doric pedimented entablature; glazing bar cross casements, part opening metal frames, gauged brick flat arched heads, first floor central blind window; offset plinth, plat band, boxed eaves, 3 gabled 2-light dormers. Internal end stacks with an internal cross axial stack between hall and parlour to right of centre. Moulded kneelers to coped gable end parapets, continued plat bands, right end has 2 small attic lights with gauged brick flat arched heads, left end has 2 small first floor leaded lights with gauged brick flat arched heads. Original stair wing to rear centre has irregular fenestration, hipped roof. To rear right is rendered clay lump service wing, 4 bays, 2 storeys, mixed sashes and casements, a half glazed door towards front on outer elevation, an entrance on inner elevation, 2 ridge stacks. To rear left projecting beyond end of main range is 2 bay brick kitchen addition, a lean-to to front angle with an entrance, mixed casements and a tripartite sash, gable end coped parapets, central ridge stack, a lean-to to rear. Interior: large through tension bracing in rear wall, parlour has a chamfered axial binding beam, C18 raised panelling reset from Pond Hall, Botesdale (not listed) with box cornices, a fireplace with an egg and dart lugged architrave, flanking cupboards with key blocked round arched heads; stop chamfered cross axial binding beams, C19 dogleg staircase in original stair bay with stop chamfered wallplates. Staggered tenoned purlin roof with collars to principals. (East Anglian Miscellany, 1926, pp.54-56).
Listing NGR: TM0408776410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
East Anglian Miscellany, (1926), 54-56
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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