Broome Hall
| Broome Hall | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Broome Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ15054253 |
| Location: | 51°10’14"N, 0°21’21"W |
| Village: | Coldharbour |
| History | |
| Built c. 1830 | |
| For: | Andrew Spottiswoode |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Broome Hall is a country house and estate south of Coldharbour in Surrey. It was built around 1830 for the politician and printer Andrew Spottiswoode, and had a succession of owners before being converted into flats in the twentieth century. It is Grade-II listed.
19th century
The house was built about 1830 for the politician and printer Andrew Spottiswoode, and extended in the late 19th century for Sir Alexander Brown, 1st Baronet.[1] It was also home from 1865 to the politician Frederick Pennington (died 1914) and his suffragette wife Margaret.[2][3]
20th century
In the Second World War, Broome Hall was used as the headquarters of the Canadian forces.[4]
In 1954, the White Fathers, Christian missionaries in Africa and an order of monks, bought the property and used it as their British novitiate, for training new monks.[4]
The actor Oliver Reed bought the house from the monks, and lived there in the late 1960s until the 1980s.[4] According to Reed's biographer Robert Sellers, Reed only bought the house because he wanted a field to keep his horse in, but then spent a fortune renovating it.[5] The naked wrestling scene with Reed and Alan Bates in Ken Russell's 1969 film Women in Love is said to have been filmed there.[4] Reed was banned from his local pub there for descending a chimney naked and shouting out: "Ho! Ho! Ho! I'm Santa Claus."[4] According to legend, Reed buried the jewellery collection of a former girlfriend in the grounds where it still lies.[4]
The house was then bought by a property developer who converted it into flats.[4] It was Grade-II listed with Historic England in 1987.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1028759: Broome Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "The Country Estates - Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre" (in en-US). Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre. https://www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk/the-country-estates/. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ↑ Crawford, Elizabeth. (2006) (in en). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781136010545. https://books.google.com/books?id=uUrKCVn9VZkC&pg=PA187.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Vendrickas, Ginetta (15 March 2007). "Still reeling from its colourful past". The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/advice/propertymarket/3357136/Still-reeling-from-its-colourful-past.html. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ↑ Martin, Guy (10 July 2013). "Oliver Reed's unique lifestyle remembered in new book". SurreyLive. https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/oliver-reed-biography-tells-outrageous-4890139. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Sellers, Robert: 'What Fresh Lunacy is This?' (Constable, 2014)