BROOM FARMHOUSE

BROOM FARMHOUSE, BROOM LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268319
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BROOM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROOM FARMHOUSE, BROOM LANE

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Date:: 2002-09-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268319
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BROOM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOM FARMHOUSE, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: BROOM FARMHOUSE, BROOM LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Oake
National Grid Reference:: ST 15732 24453

Details

ST12SE OAKE BROOM LANE Broom Farmhouse

1661-0/5/10003 II

Farmhouse. Circa late C15 or early C16, remodelled and extended circa early C17. Rendered stone rubble and/or cob. Thatched roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. End stacks with rebuilt brick shafts. PLAN : L-shaped on plan. The rear right-hand wing is the hall of a late Medieval house, the cross-passage and service end of which are missing, the inner room subsumed into the right-hand end the circa early C17 front range which was probably added when a floor was inserted into the open hall. The hall stack backs onto the former cross-passage. The front range comprises two rooms and a wide central cross-passage, the larger parlour on the left. EXTERIOR: l-storey and attic. 3-window east front. C20 casements, the attic windows under eyebrow eaves; doorway to right of centre with C20 glazed door, side-lights and thatched porch on wooden posts. Rear [west], blind to right and with gable-ended wing [original hall] on left with lean-to outshut on end and casement windows on either side. INTERIOR: Front range: left room has framed ceiling with intersecting deep hollow-chamfered beams and new fireplace; wide central passage and smaller right-hand room have no exposed features; roof with collars morticed to the principals, trenched purlins and with what appears to be a cruck-post jointed to inserted tie-beam. Rear wing: former hall with inserted framed ceiling with moulded intersecting beams and joists, large fireplace with C2O surround, doorway to former cross-passage with chamfered wooden frame with cranked head and chamfered arch-braced collar roof truss exposed in hall chamber; roof apex and feet of principals not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST1573224453

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Legacy System number:: 461970
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.