From the report

" Broomlands occupies the site of an earlier property (date unknown) named Little Broom (Tithe Map). At that time the owner was a Thomas Bingham Richards. His holding comprised ‘house premises and garden’ together with a pond and extensive pasture, meadow and woodland. An 1820 print shows the house with a Regency veranda and stone ha-ha, separating the lawn to the south of the house from the park (Kent Compendium). Richards was still in residence in 1847 (Bagshaw), but it is likely that the Barrow family acquired Little Broom (and Broom Farm on its southern boundary) when they bought an extensive tract of land in the 1850s (1863 lease) on which to build a new house (Holmewood House). Holmewood House was constructed 800m to the south-east of Little Broom and was set in extensive gardens and parkland. At the same time Little Broom was renamed Broomlands, its house enlarged and gardens developed (1st edn OS map).
Broomlands was tenanted for thirty years, first to a Mr G. J. Rust (Kelly’s 1867) and then to a Reverend William Perkins (Kelly’s 1874). No significant changes appear to have been made to the property during this period (Indenture 1875; 2nd edn OS map). By 1899 a Major Leonard Barrow (Kelly’s) was in residence and after his death, Broomlands appears to have been used as a dower house for Holmewood House. The owner in 1911 was a Mrs Dorothea Barrow (Inland Revenue Valuation), but after World War One, during which Broomlands was used as an auxiliary hospital, its occupier was a Mrs J. Barrow (Kelly’s). She remained there until the 1930s, when the Barrow family sold Broomlands as part of the Holmewood Estate.
Broomlands was bought in 1940 by a Lionel Savill and in 1955 by a Peter Hope. The current owners bought the property from a Mr A. Schiff in 1985. Since then, a programme of tree replanting has been implemented, new garden areas have been created and additional land has been acquired. The property remains in single private ownership."

<1> Barbara Simms, 2009, The Kent Compendium of Historic Parks and Gardens for Tunbridge Wells Borough:Broomlands (Unpublished document). SKE16077.