Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
24734
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/01/2001  
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001  
Name of Property
Broom House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Raglan  
Town
Raglan  
Locality
Raglan  
Easting
340263  
Northing
206719  
Street Side
S  
Location
Situated about 1. 5 km SW of Raglan, on S side of Broom Lane which runs W from the Usk road. Broom House is about 150m down Broom Lane and within its own walled grounds.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Earlier C19 gentry house. The parish church contains a memorial window of 1868 to Philip Morgan of The Broom. Sir Joseph Bradney records a house called Blue Broom in the parish, occupied in 1822 by Edmund Bowyer, and in 1911 owned by Richard Pryce "who has much improved it".  

Exterior
Country house, painted stucco with slate hipped roofs, bracketed flat eaves and rendered end stacks. Two storeys, three-window range with outer tripartite sashes, 3-9-3-pane above, 4-12-4-pane below, and centre 9-pane sash over added large stone porch. Half-glazed door within. Rear is slightly outshut with arched small-paned centre stair-window over door, and attractive large curved square 20-pane sash each floor at left angle, with roof curved to match, below level of main eaves. Added dormer above. To right, large rear wing with hipped roof and 2-window end wall. Return wall to rear court has 9-pane first floor sash and 2 12-pane ground floor sashes.  

Interior
Interior not available for inspection at the time of resurvey (December 1999)  

Reason for designation
Listed as a fine early C19 house set in its own grounds.  

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