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List entry Summary

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

Name: BROOME HALL

List entry Number: 1028759

Location

BROOME HALL, BROOME HALL ROAD

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

County	District	District Type	Parish
Surrey	Mole Valley	District Authority	Capel

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 29-Sep-1987

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

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

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 290173

Asset Groupings

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List entry Description

Summary of Building

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

CAPEL C.P. BROOME HALL ROAD TQ 14SE Coldharbour 8/64 Nos. 1 - 5 Broome Hall GV II

Country house, now divided. Circa 1830 for Mr Andrew Spottiswoode, extended in late C19 for Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown. Sandstone hlocks with ashlar copings and dressings, slate roofs and stone stacks. Roughly rectangular plan. Entrance front:- L-shaped with front drive. Two storeys and attics, double wings projecting to right, shallow gabled break to left. 4 stacks to the right end and centre triple stack to left of centre. Two large gabled dormers with two-light sashes to each under label mouldings, angle-bay below left hand dormer, angle-bay oriel window under that to right; two, 2-light first floor windows alternating. Three mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor. Gabled break to left:- with attic window, oriel window on the first floor and "cross" window below. Arched, square-panel double doors to left of centre in vaulted portico with quatrefoil panels in parapet above with central coat of arms. Moulded, chamfered, surround to 4-centre, arched entrance. Double gable wings to right with octagonal and diagonal stacks, leaded casement fenestration. One attic, one first floor and one ground floor window in each gable end. Single storey conservatory range set back to left with battlemented parapet, partly obscuring coved, glazed roof with wrought iron railings of trefoil and foliage pattern. Garden Front:- Older range to left. Two storeys with attics in gabled stone dormers with corbelled eaves and diagonal spike finials to apexes. Multiple octagonal, cross-ridge stacks. Two gabled dormers alternating with smaller, flat-roofed dormers. 5 casement windows to first floor under label mouldings, including ashlared angle bay to right with blind tracery panels below lights. Perpendicular style Gothic 'cloister' across the ground floor with blind traceried, octagonal finials to offset buttresses which alternate with 4- centre, arched openings with moulded and chamfered surrounds. Right hand bay glazed in. Three storey link to extensions with chamfered angle. Three-gabled dormers to right, outer two-storey angle bays below with stone-dressed, mullioned and transomed window separated by blind-tracery arcades between floors. Oriel window to first floor right, one window on each floor to left of centre. Battlemented range (rear of conservatory) to right end.

W. T. PIKE (Ed.): SURREY AT THE OPENING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1906) p.101. V.C.H. (1967 Edn) Vol. III p.136.

Listing NGR: TQ1505542535

Selected Sources

1. Book  Reference - Author: WT Pike - Title: Surrey at the opening of the Twentieth Century - Date: 1906 - Page References: 101
2. Article  Reference - Author: HE Malden - Title: The Victoria History of the County of Surrey - Date: 1902 - Journal Title: The Victoria History of the Counties of England

National Grid Reference: TQ 15055 42535

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