BROOM MANOR

BROOM MANOR, BACK LANE (B1037)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347987
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: BROOM MANOR
Statutory Address:: BROOM MANOR, BACK LANE (B1037)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347987
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: BROOM MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: BROOM MANOR, BACK LANE (B1037)

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BROOM MANOR, BACK LANE (B1037)

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Cottered
National Grid Reference:: TL 31002 28599

Details

TL 32 NW COTTERED BACK LANE (B1037) (north side) HARE STREET

3/3 Broom Manor

19.10.51

GV II

House. C15 or early C16 2-storeys SW cross wing, taller C16 2- storeys NW wing, C16 hall range on S with inserted early C17 floor and chimney, red brick fronts c1700 to S, and Ground floor of NW wing on E side, and contemporary windows and panelling. Single storey E kitchen and chimney 1954. Timber frame roughcast with added front in red brick chequered with black headers. Steep old red tile roofs and red brick chimneys. A, 2-storeys and attics, L-shaped house facing S. Lobby-entry, central chimney plan with chimney a third from E end. Former kitchen at E with wider fireplace and trimming for stair trap at SE corner. Parlour at W now thrown into hall. Main stair in rear wing now, with 2-bay structure and N internal gable chimney. Formal S front of brick has a plinth, floor band, and 3 large gables with gable-parapets linked by eaves parapets. A 2-light mullioned casement window in each gable (central window blocked). 4 larger flush 2-light mullioned windows with segmented heads and casements to 1st floor in pattern of 1:2:1 punctuated by upright oval openings, the W one blocked, the E one renewed and glazed over entrance door in front of stack. 4 similar mullioned cross- windows to ground floor and 2-panel door under flat hood on heavy brackets with guttae. Sun firemark no 97213 at 1st floor level. Single-storey plastered kitchen extension with steep old tiled roof set back at E end. Tall central chimney with conjoined diagonal shafts above a rectangular base. Contemporary gable chimney to NW wing with 2 diagonal shafts. Capped-off external C19 chimney to parlour on W end may have replaced an older stack. Entrance now by a panelled door with pedimented hood on E side of NW rear wing. Interior has chamfered and stopped axial beams in S range, panelling in hall and chamber over with 2-panel doors and H-hinges, hollow moulded curved braces and tie beams to 2- bay former solar on 1st floor at SW with a fine 3-light mullioned window on W with traceried heads, iron grille, and ogee-plus-roll mullions rebated for glazing. Narrow E bay of hall range partitioned to full height before chimney inserted. Iron fireback with 'RL 1630' and broad arrow badge in wreath with coronet was found behind a fireplace but may be exotic. Formerly Broom Farm (RCHM (1911) 84: VCH (1912) 228).

Listing NGR: TL3100228599

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 159821
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 228
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

Legal

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