Broadoak Manor

Broadoak Manor is a farmhouse that was extended and embellished in the early 18th century and then enlarged with a south wing in 1923 in the Queen Anne style, showing the influence of Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is now used as a residential nursing home.

The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a hipped old tiled roof above a moulded wood eaves cornice. The south wing has flush eaves. The original plan form, now obscured by internal alterations, appears to have consisted of a central entry with two rooms in double-depth formation.

The north elevation's first floor features three flush-set 12-pane sash windows with segmental arched heads. The ground floor has taller 12-pane sashes to the left and right of a projecting porch added in 1923, which has twin leaf panelled doors, paired Tuscan pilasters, an entablature with modillion cornice, and a broad segmental pediment with a copper roof.

The east elevation has irregular fenestration, including a 2-light leaded-light wood casement at the left above a similar mullion and transom window with lattice glazing on the ground floor. Triple 4:12:4-pane sashes are positioned at the first and ground floors on the right. A broad 4-light leaded casement window is set under a red brick cambered flat arch at centre left, above a doorway with an early 18th-century 2-paned door with a 4-light fanlight and moulded cornice hood carried on cut profiled brackets with moulded cornices. Five bays contain slightly recessed sashes—9-pane on the first floor and 12-pane on the ground floor—beneath flat arches with segmental intrados. The central doorway has a half-glazed door with a Gothick tracery fanlight featuring interlaced ogees, and a canted cornice hood on brackets.

The south wing's north elevation features triple sash windows to the first and ground floors, with a brick cornice displaying a zig-zag course above a moulded quadrant band and a brick panelled blocking course below flush eaves.

The south elevation of the 1923 south wing comprises four bays, three with flush-set sashes below segmental rubbed brick arches—16-pane on the first floor and 20-pane on the ground floor. An external chimney breast is positioned in the second bay from the left, with two small casement windows on the first floor. An attic dormer has a brick pediment surround with a flush-set 12-pane sash with segmental head and sill.

The roof includes one large and one small hip-roofed casement dormer with leaded lights on the east, three small casement dormers on the north, and three on the west. The later south wing's north elevation has two box dormers with segmental roofs and copper sides, containing flush 16-pane sashes; three similar dormers appear on the south elevation. Red brick chimneysstacks, all rebuilt, feature two large chimneys with external breasts and brick pedimented surrounds to flush-set attic dormers. These have substantial rectangular shafts on moulded bases with oversailing band caps, positioned on the east elevation and to the right of centre on the south elevation of the south wing.

The interior has been much altered since the south wing was built in 1923. The entrance from the east leads to a stair hall with an altered straight flight close string newel stair with column balusters. The ground floor north-east room retains exposed chamfered beams, an 18th-century corner cupboard with a 4-panel door on H-hinges, and a bold double cyma cornice. The fireplace has a stone bolection surround, added during 1923 alterations. The library, created in 1923, runs the length of the west side and is divided into bays by fluted pilasters with bookcases in recesses. It features a fireplace with a marble surround and a carved wood outer surround with a pulvinated acanthus frieze and sunburst head on the central block. The first floor central corridor has three exposed chamfered beams. The attic retains some exposed purlins, principal rafters, and three beams in the central corridor. The roof structure has been much altered.