Broomfield Farmhouse Somerford Booths, England

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SOMERFORD BOOTHS C.P. GIANTSWOOD LANE SJ 86 NW 1/110 Broomfield Farmhouse 14.2.67 GV II*

Small country house. Late C17. Red Flemish bond brick and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, with a slate roof. Two storeys with attic. The entrance front is of 6 bays, the five at right symmetrically disposed but all built at one time. The porch wing is at right of centre and has a round archway to the ground floor with brick voussoirs and keystone, above which is a flat hood-mould. To the first floor is a cross-window with a cambered head of C19 brick. To either side of the porch and in a sunken area is the basement which has walling of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins to the corners. The basement windows have chamfered ashlar surrounds with mullions and are of two lights save at far left where the window is of single-light form. Ashlar string-course dividing the basement from the first floor and others dividing the ground from the first and the first from the attic floors. These continue around the building and there are ashlar quoins to the four corners. The ground floor has cross windows at left and right of the porch with a single-light window to the far left. The first floor is similar. Ridge chimney stack to left of centre. The right hand gable end has a massive chimney stack to the centre with a battered lower body which dies via offset to a rectangular body with ashlar quoins to the corners. The top courses and flues are of C19 Ruabon brick with a cogged band. To left of this stack are a ground and first floor window opening, now blocked, with a single light basement window with a chamfered ashlar surround. Interior: Within the porch is a plank door with coffin-nail decoration and incised strap hinges. The central hallway has a closed string staircase of 5 flights, that leading to the basement having elaborately carved and pierced splat balusters and a moulded handrail. The remaining four flights all have spiral twist balusters and newel posts with a moulded handrail and moulded facing boards to the treads. The top landing has splat balusters of waved outline. To the ground floor at either side of the hallway are 2 sets of double doors each having 2 bolection-moulded panels and one having a panelled door surround with Ionic capitals. The ground floor rooms have ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with ogee end-stops.

Listing NGR: SJ8245967024