BROOME HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348309
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: BROOME HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROOME HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1348309
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: BROOME HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOME HOUSE

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:: BROOME HOUSE

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Broome
National Grid Reference:: SO 90210 78367

Details

BROOME CP BROOME SO 97 NW 8/3 Broome House 20.10.52 GV II Country house. Late C18 with late C19 and some mid-C20 alterations. Sandstone ashlar with hipped tile roofs. South front: three storeys. Centre advanced slightly with pediment above in parapet; 1 + 3 + 1 windows. Glazing bar sashes, except the central window which is Venetian. Second floor: 6-pane sashes with central Diocletian window. Ground floor: 1 + 2 + 1 windows, 2-light casements under semi-circular heads. Central entrance has a semi-circular plan porch with Doric columns, moulded cornice and flat roof; blind fanlight over 2-leaf half-glazed door. East front: Gothick style, three storeys, three windows, the side bays advanced with crenellated parapet and pilasters, central bay has an ogee gable. Three windows: 3-lights, outer lights have 2-centred heads, the central one an ogee head. Second floor: blind windows of two 2-centred lights with ogee label, central window a quatrefoil. Ground floor: central porch with crenellated parapet, ogee and over blocked doorway; windows have semi-circular heads. This house has recently been attributed stylistically to William and David Hiorn, see A Gomme, 'William & David Hiorn' in The Architectural Outsiders, London, 1985, p 60-61 & note 42, plate X. (BoE, p 113; VCH 3, p 33; P Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, p 195).

Listing NGR: SO9021078367

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

Legacy System number:: 156989
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, R, The Architectural Outsiders, (1985), 60 61
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 33
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 113
Reid, P, 'Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses' in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, , Vol. 2, (1980), 195

Legal

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