BROADHEMBURY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204325
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: BROADHEMBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROADHEMBURY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204325
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: BROADHEMBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROADHEMBURY HOUSE

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

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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:: BROADHEMBURY HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Broadhembury
National Grid Reference:: ST 10191 04822

Details

BROADHEMBURY BROADHEMBURY SY 10 SW

5/47 Broadhembury House 7.12.62

GV II

Large house. Probably C17 origins, thoroughly remodelled and enlarged for Mr. C. Drewe Esq., the owner of the Broadhembury estate, at some date between 1903 and 1914, the architect Harbottle Reed. Whitewashed and rendered, the front wall said to be cob on stone rubble footings, the Edwardian enlargements probably stone; thatched roof, hipped at right end and hipped at end of front left (north-west) wing; 2 axial stacks, one internal front right lateral stack, 3 rear lateral stacks, all with rendered shafts. Designed to harmonize with the traditional cob and thatch houses in the estate village. Plan: Sited within the village but slightly set back from the road. A long single depth range, facing south-west with a front left (north-west) wing at right angles and a rear right (south-east) wing at right angles; access corridor to the rear of the main range. The core of the house is probably C17 and some of the stacks may also be of this date. There is little other visible evidence of the pre-Edwardian house: both the wings are by Harbottle Reed. The present entrance is to right of centre into a large heated stair hall, with an Edwardian open well stair. Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 7-bay south-west front, the left hand bay to the wing at the left end. Good panelled front door to right of centre, dated 1614 with a porch hood on brackets. Complete set of Edwardian oriel widows of 2, 3 and 4 lights, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows. The oriels are supported on carved Jacobean style brackets, each bracket decorated with a different carved motif. The same style of window is continued round the house, some of the rear first floor windows of the same date are flush to the wall. Interior: The stair hall is lined with linenfold panelling, some is C16 and may have been removed from the Drewe Arms (information from Mr. W. Drewe, the owner), the rest is Edwardian. Fine Edwardian open well stair with turned balusters in a C17 manner. The room to the left of the stair hall is lined with presumably re-sited C17 panelling and a Jacobean timber chimney-piece has (been re-used above the fireplace. Edwardian decorated plaster ceiling in a C17 manner. Harbottle Reed was the Exeter Diocesan Surveyor in the 1930s. He worked on a number of churches and designed Rock House, Bridford parish, in an eclectic Vernacular Revival style. The Drewe family have lived at Broadhembury House since 1903. Broadhembury is an interesting house, both for group value in a remarkably unspoiled village but also as an example of Vernacular Revival undertaken by a local architect.

Listing NGR: ST1018404830

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Legacy System:: LBS

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