BROOMSHIELDS HALL

BROOMSHIELDS HALL, 1 2 AND 3, B6296

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185998
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: BROOMSHIELDS HALL
Statutory Address:: BROOMSHIELDS HALL, 1 2 AND 3, B6296

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185998
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: BROOMSHIELDS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BROOMSHIELDS HALL, 1 2 AND 3, B6296

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BROOMSHIELDS HALL, 1 2 AND 3, B6296

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Satley
National Grid Reference:: NZ 11554 42317

Details

SATLEY B6296 (Est side) NZ 14 SW 9/114 (inset) Broomshields Hall (Units 1,2 and 3) 17.1.67 GV II

House, now divided into 3 houses. Early C18 (door lintel dated 1723) and circa 1850; site of Greenwell family home from late C15. Coursed squared and rubble sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; C19 roofs of graduated grey slates; earlier roof stone-flagged. Irregular plan, the earliest part having left additions extending to rear, and right additions breaking forward.

East elevation: main block 2 low storeys, 4 bays; service wing at right 2 lower storeys, 5 bays, breaking forward in one-storey, 4-bay coach house and stable and lower one-storey, 3-bay outbuilding; left extension, at higher level, 2 storeys, one bay, and left return of 3 bays with further set-back 3-bay block linked by porch.

Main house has plain stone surround to Tudor-headed door in fourth bay under wood-bracketed hipped hood; small late C19 sashes, paired in second bay, in architraves; steeply-pitched roof has 3 hipped dormers with ball finials; 3 ridge chimneys, at ends and to left of door. Right service extension has varied fenestration, all sashes with glazing bars, right end half-glazed door, and ridge chimneys; left addition has one sash with glazing bars on each floor, in moulded stone surrounds with bar-stopped chamfers, under hipped roof. Right wing, breaking forward, has sash with glazing bars, 2 keyed vehicle arches with alternate-block jambs; plain stone surround to 2 boarded doors in lower extension, and left light with flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill. Left return has varied surrounds to sashes with glazing bars; extruded porch with Tuscan doorcase and half-glazed double door.

Interior: low-relief stucco panel over principal fireplace has groups of animals and hunting figures in late C17 style; chamfered beams to principal room; Tudor-arched stone fire,in attic,in bolection-moulded surround. C19 wing has C17 stair re-used, with twist balusters, close string and grip handrail; early C18 panelling and chimneypiece of high quality in one ground-floor room; there is no evidence available for the provenance of these.

Source: W. Fordyce, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 1857, Vol. III, 662.

Listing NGR: NZ1155442317

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Legacy System number:: 350621
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 662

Legal

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