Broomhills
Broomhills, Stambridge Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168414
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Broomhills
- Statutory Address:
- Broomhills, Stambridge Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168414
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Broomhills
- Statutory Address 1:
- Broomhills, Stambridge Road
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, Stambridge Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Rochford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stambridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 88858 90356
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 September 2020 to amend a sentence in description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 89 SE
6/296
STAMBRIDGE
OFF STAMBRIDGE ROAD (south side)
Broomhills
GV
II
House. C18 with late C19/early C20 alterations and additions. Red brick. Double range red plain tiled roofs. End chimney stacks to front range, off centre rear range stack. Parapet and parapet verges. Two storeys and attics. To the right is a two storey extension with chimney stack to left and a single storey far right extension with right chimney stack, also rear right flat roofed extension. Three window range to original build with three segmental headed dormers, left ground floor bay. Various small paned casements and vertically sliding sashes, some tripartite. Central flat headed porch with panelled door, fanlight over, windows to side walls. Single first floor casement to right range and large ground floor bay with central French windows and vertically sliding sashes to right and left. Similar smaller window to far right extension. The house is covered with creeper and much detail is obscured.
The C18 home of John Harriot, projector and founder of the Thames River Police. Born in Stambridge 1745 he joined the Royal Navy as a Midshipman, later joined the merchant service, left his ship 1766 and lived as a member of an American Indian tribe, after this he obtain a military appointment with the East India Company was wounded and returned to Essex about 1781. He embanked Rushley Island at great cost, winning a gold medal from the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts and Sciences for, the project. During the early 1790s he worked on a scheme for a force of river police for the Port of London and after various other adventures he and Sir Patrick Colquhoun were, in 1798, given permission to try out the scheme for the formation of the Thames River Police which was officially adopted two years later. Harriot was appointed one of the three special justices at the Police Office, Wapping. In 1808 he published his autobiography "Struggles through Life".
Listing NGR: TQ8885890356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 123277
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harriot, J, Struggles Through Life, (1808)
Addison, W, Essex Worthies, (1973)
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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