Description

SX 97 NW ASHCOMBE

8/299 Broomhouse Farmhouse
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II

Estate farmhouse. Circa 1840. Rendered ; slate roof, gabled at ends ; projecting
end stacks with set-offs to main block and wing. Gothic.
Plan: Single depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a central porch, rear service wing
forms an overall T plan.
Exterior: Modest Gothic details. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a central
projecting 2 storey porch, the first floor of the porch oversailing the ground floor;
segmental arched outer doorway, 3-light window with stepped lights to the porch room.
Set of chamfered mullioned casement windows, the ground floor windows with high
transomes. The right return has a later gabled porch and entrance into the service
wings similar fenestration.
Interior: Not inspected.
Very intact externally and an unusual example of Gothic detailing on a farmhouse of
this date.
An almost identical farmhouse, Newhouse Mamhead Parish, suggests that both buildings
were an estate design of the Mamhead Estate.

Listing NGR: SX9306078807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390013

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