Broadoak Manor

Heritage listing

Details HERTFORD TL3013NW BROADOAK END 817-1/5/294 Broadoak Manor 12/04/73 (Formerly Listed as: BRAMFIELD ROAD No.1 Broad Oak End) GV II Farmhouse, extended as small country house, now residential nursing home. Early C18, enlarged (south-wing) and embellished 1923 in Queen Anne style, showing influence of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Red brick, Flemish bond, hipped old tiled roof above moulded wood eaves cornice, flush eaves on south wing. Plan form obscured by internal alterations, but appears to have been central entry with 2 rooms in double-depth formation. EXTERIOR: north elevation first floor has 3 flush set 12-pane sash windows with segmental arched heads. Ground floor with taller 12-pane sashes left and right of projecting porch added 1923, with twin leaf panelled doors, paired Tuscan pilasters, entablature with modillion cornice, and broad segmental pediment, with copper roof. East elevation with irregular fenestration; a 2-light leaded-light wood casement at left, above similar mullion and transom window, lattice glazed, on ground floor, triple 4:12:4-pane sashes, first and ground floor at right, broad 4-light leaded casement window under red brick cambered flat arch centre left above doorway, this has early C18 2-paned door with 4-light fanlight above and moulded cornice hood carried on cut profiled brackets with moulded cornices. 5 bays, with slightly recessed sashes, 9-pane on first floor, 12-pane on ground floor, beneath flat arches with segmental intrados. Central doorway with half-glazed door with fanlight with Gothick tracery of interlaced ogees, and cornice hood canted on brackets. South wing north elevation has triple sash windows to first and ground floors, brick cornice with zig-zag course above moulded quadrant band, and brick panelled blocking course below f

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.