BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH

BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH, BROOM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067575
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH
Statutory Address:: BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH, BROOM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067575
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH, BROOM 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:: BROOMLANDS INCLUDING RETAINING WALL TO THE TERRACE TO THE SOUTH, BROOM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 54455 38919

Details

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST BROOM LANE

Broomlands including retaining 7/459 wall to the terrace to the south

II

House. Probably 1840s, perhaps a remodelling of an earlier house, with additions of 1908 (information from the owner), in matching materials. Said to have been built as a dower house to Holmewood (q.v.). Rusticated local sandstone ashlar; slate roof with lead rolls; stacks with stone shafts; service stacks with rendered shafts. Terrace wall rock-faced sandstone.

Plan: Roofed on an east west axis. South facing garden elevation, entrance on the north side to the east. The main block has 2 principal rooms facing south, one projecting to the south in a canted bay. Third principal room in a one-room plan north wing at right angles, the wing canted at the north end. Original service block to the north west, extended in 1908. Axial corridor on the north side of the main block, containing the stair.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Deep eaves with a moulded eaves cornice in paired brackets. Asymmetrical 2:3:1:2-bay entrance (north) elevation, the canted end of the wing with 3 windows. Projecting flat-roofed stone porch at the extreme left, probably of 1908, with a moulded cornice and panelled front door. Platband at first floor sill level across the 2 left hand bays and canted wing. 5 first floor left hand windows and the ground floor windows to the wing 8-pane C19 sashes with margin panes. The right hand bay has a first floor 24-pane sash and a 20-pane ground floor sash. One-light fixed window with margin panes to the right of the porch. A lower-roofed block at the right end is probably the original service wing. The garden (south) elevation is 5:1:3:2 bays, the 5 bays in the 1908 service wing; canted bay with 3 windows towards the left of the main block; 1989 conservatory on stone footings with small-pane windows with margin glazing across the front to right of the bay. Various C19 sash windows: 8-pane with margin glazing to the bay; 12-pane to the right of the bay; 16-pane to the left where there is no platband. The 1908 wing is 5-windows glazed with samll-pane sashes. The terrace wall to the south has curved coping stones.

Interior: Some early c19 plaster cornices and joinery, including shutters, survive. The fireplaces all have replaced chimney-pieces or have been blocked. Open string stair with slender turned balusters the newel posts later replacements.

Listing NGR: TQ5445538919

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 438602
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.