Location

Broomhill is in the tiny hamlet of Rosecare which is on a quiet road leading from Wainhouse Corner to Crackington Haven. The busier A39 (the Atlantic Highway) is just a mile away leading to Bude and beyond, along the coast. Wainhouse has a convenience store, a garage and a pub. Crackington Haven is an unspoiled sand and shingle cove nestled between imposing cliffs with colourful strata, a notable geological phenomenon.

Bude is well known for its surfing beaches and, as a popular seaside resort, has good amenities for sports and leisure, but being a town with a permanent population it has essential amenities, such as a supermarket and schools. There is also a primary school at nearby Jacobstow.

Description

Broomhill dates from the mid 18th c. with later additions in the 1860s and since the 1960s, during the ownership of the current vendor. The extensions have been skilfully added and period features reclaimed to create a substantial country house of traditional stone and Delabole slate construction.
There are many original features, such as the entrance from the porch into the reception hall, which still suggests the oldest version of the house, with a deep recess where there was once a range and slate flagstones which extend through all the original rooms. Georgian windows with wooden shutters and heavy six panel doors are throughout the house as well as period decorative features.

Straight ahead is the dining room overlooking the west (seaward) with shuttered windows and a deeply recessed arch. Steps go up to the kitchen, which has fitted wooden units and cupboards, a gas hob and electric oven. A spacious larder room is adjacent and beyond the kitchen is the breakfast room/sunroom, not only with windows to three sides and with doors to the garden, but also with a glazed lantern roof, giving an abundance of natural light. A log burner keeps it cosy in the winter. Opposite the kitchen and across the reception hall is a door to a wc and shower room, the utility room and a cosy double bedroom with a beamed ceiling and access to the garden through the boot room and original heavy oak door.

An impressive hall, a colonnade of granite pillars with large windows and glazed doors to the front garden, connects to the drawing room at the far end of the house. This triple aspect room is elegant with large, shuttered windows over lovely views of the walled garden and the fields beyond, with a wide, arched window to the west for evening sunshine. The traditional hearth has an inset wood burner, and the oak floor adds to the warm tones of the room. There is a deep, recessed china cabinet.

An inner hall leads to an office with floor to ceiling shelving and a wide window to the west, and an internal shuttered window to the long hall. Stairs turn to the wide landing on the first floor, with a view south over the front garden. To the left is the bedroom wing that has a shower room, separate wc, a twin bedroom, a double bedroom, both overlooking fields, and a larger bedroom with a wash basin and a garden view. At the far end of the landing, passing a window that gives a glimpse of the sea, is the principal bedroom suite reached by an inner corridor. This comprises a generously sized dressing room, which could easily be a bedroom, a very spacious shower room, and the very generously proportioned double aspect bedroom with good, fitted storage space and views of the garden and open countryside.

The gardens are extensive and have varied areas of contrasting planting, including a formal granite walled garden, a kitchen garden, lawns bordered by flower beds, shrubs and mature trees, secret wild corners, and a terrace with a summer house facing the sea and the seven acres of pasture that spread out to the south and west. A cleverly constructed ha-ha allows this to be an unobstructed view.

A well-built stable and tack room is in the nearest paddock. There is a useful range of outbuildings set around an attractive gravel courtyard, edged by raised fruit beds: a garage, a linhay and opening on to the road verge, the wood store and a large workshop.

Directions

From the A39 at Wainhouse Corner take the road signed to Rosecare for a mile and Broomhill will be on the right.

Crackington Haven about 2 miles
Bude about 9 miles
Launceston about 18 miles
Bodmin Parkway about 35 miles
Cornwall Airport Newquay about 33 miles
Truro about 45 miles
Exeter M5 about 59 miles