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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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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.