Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BROOMHILL HOUSELB261

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/10/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Duthil And Rothiemurchus
National Park
Cairngorms
NGR
NH 99340 22587
Coordinates
299340, 822587

Description

1914-19, with circa 1935 addition, in Arts and Crafts

tradition. Balfour Paul, architect, Edinburgh. 2-storey,

roughly L-plan house with later wing forming U-plan rear

court approached through pend passing under circa 1935

drawing room extension. Random mixed granite, tooled grey

granite ashlar dressings.

Off-centre entrance in N elevation; pale grey granite moulded

doorpiece. Asymmetrical S garden front with wide partially

glazed verandah under catslide roof with 3-window box

dormer with floral embossed lead linking panels. Wide 3-light

window left (lighting sitting room former drawing room);

gabled W elevation with 2 ground floor canted bay windows.

At NW tall, 4-bay 1st floor drawing room wing with 4 long

windows breaking wallhead under piended gables and pend

below.

Gabled E elevation and rear service wing. 1st floor windows

break wallhead under piended gablets; multi-pane glazing

throughout.

Service court screened by high coped wall with entrance

flanked by round rubble gate piers with circular caps.

Lean-to outbuilding in form of lectern dovecote with angle

ball finial on rear wallhead.

End and ridge coped stacks; wallhead stack to drawing room

wing with shaped scroll base; kneelers to gables; local

slate roofs.

Interior: entrance lobby with beams leads to inner stairhall

with large chimneypieces; sitting room with simple carved

chimneypiece with tiled surround. Later 1st floor drawing

room opens from staircase, large long barrel vaulted room

with ribbed plaster ceiling, the ribbing decorated with shell

and seaweed design; moulded ceiling cornice. Mural

semi-circular niche with shell head; 17th century style

lugged marble chimneypiece with carved oak leaf detailing

to cornice and mantel with egg and dart decoration.

Statement of Special Interest

Original house built by Sir Alfred Booth of Liverpool (Cunard

Line). Balfour Paul with Rowand Anderson, Paul and Partners,

Edinburgh. This firm included Basil Spence in 1930's, who

worked on the drawing room addition of Broomhill House.

References

Bibliography

National Monuments Record of Scotland.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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