Broad Oak

A house dating to around 1850, constructed with roughcast over brick and random rubble, with ashlar facing to the plinth. The roof is slate, featuring boxed eaves and decorative barjeeboards on the gable ends. Brick stacks are set within ironwork to the gable ends. The house is planned with a parallel range facing south and a service courtyard at the rear. It has one and a half storeys and a 1:1:1 bay arrangement, with a gabled central bay projecting forward. Dormers with gabled tops are present in the outer bays. Windows are Ham stone, hollow chamfered, in Tudor arch heads. First-floor windows are two-light with hoodmoulds, while the ground floor has two-light, canted bays framing the entrance. The central entrance has a pointed arch approached by two steps, with renewed ribbed double doors, a six-panel inner door, and a fanlight above. The rear courtyard contains a copper in the washhouse. Internally, the ground floor bay windows have shutters, the stairway features a stained glass fanlight, and the west room has a plain marble chimney piece. The barjeeboards on the central gable were damaged at the time of survey in November 1985, and the exterior was in a poor state of repair. The Cotley Harriers kennels were located at Broad Oak from 1855, having previously been kennelled at Cotley.