Broad Terraces

Broad Terraces is a house built around 1907 by Richard Harding Watt. It features a rendered exterior over brick and a pantiled roof, showcasing Italianate details. The main block, which faces the garden, is square in shape and is connected by a tower to a lower wing that faces the street. This wing contains the stair hall and service areas, with the entrance located in a porch at the angle where the two blocks meet.

The building has three storeys. The entrance features a stilted arch within the porch, topped by a balustraded parapet. There are raised panels on either side of the doorway, supported by consoles that carry a cornice. The right wing has narrow windows on each floor. A central stair window on the return elevation facing the street is round-arched and adorned with foliate capitals on the architrave, supported by a sill that projects on brackets. The exterior includes random stone projecting blocks and lengths of cornice integrated into the wall.

To the left of the porch, the tower has Palladian windows on the upper storey, also with foliate capitals, and narrower windows below. Beyond the tower is a full-height canted bay featuring stilted arches and long keystones on the ground-floor windows, with an inscription on a continuous string course below the upper windows. The bay is flanked by single-light windows on each floor to the right.

The garden front is tightly symmetrical, with two wide windows on either side at the first-floor level. Fluted Doric columns support a heavy entablature over paired French doors with margin lights on the lower floor, and there is a balcony with cast-iron rails carried on heavy block corbels. A central first-floor window has a balconette with a cast-iron rail. The basement has two segmentally-arched doors flanking a central recess with a small original window.

Broad Terraces is part of a notable series of buildings constructed on Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, including The Old Croft.