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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
431769
Location:
BROMES HOUSE, BROMES LANE (south side)
ISLE ABBOTTS, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
16 December 2002
Date listed:
17 April 1959
Date of last amendment:
23 June 1988
Grade
II*
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ST32SE ISLE ABBOTS CP BROMES LANE (South side)
4/18 Bromes House
(previously listed as Brooms
Farmhouse)
17.4.59
- II*
Farmhouse, now house. Medieval origin, datestone to porch of 1627 marking restoration and alteration, some minor C19
and C20 work. Coursed rubble, some roughcast and colourwashed, thatched roof, brick stacks. Two storeys, garden front
of 1:1:1:2 bays, predominantly 3-light wood and stone mullioned windows; left bay in projecting wing with a coped
verge, projecting gabled porch to centre with coping and finial, 3-light stone-mullioned window to first floor.
Four-centred arch door opening in a chamfered freestone surround, inner door in a moulded wooden architrave, studded
plank door, strap hinges. Interior with features of interest including ceiling beams, plank and muntin partition, and
good plaster frieze on first floor; fireplace in a stone surround, 4-centred arch head. Roof with remains of cruck
truss. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, December 1972).