The entry in Pevsner's Cumbria (with
Matthew Hyde, 2010) reads:
BROADLEYS, 2½ m. s, just past the former Lancastrian
border. By CFA Voysey, 1898-1899, in the years of his greatest success and
fertility (cf Moor Crag, nearby), for Henry Currer-Briggs of Yorkshire,
colliery owner. Later owned by the Milnes of Manchester, and since 1950 by
the Windermere Motor Boat Racing Club [WMBRC]. Built by Pattinsons (with
electric lighting), and fitted out by Simpson.
Towards the lake Broadleys is, for Voysey, unusually
formal in composition, and yet not in any set symmetry. The front has three
full height curved bows, the middle one with two transoms, the l and r ones
representing two storeys and expressing them. Some bare wall to the r, not
matched by the l. On the landward side E, it is an L with a long low service
wing under a big roof. The main block has a porch and to its l, a square
projection with continuous windows to the staircase. On the seldom-seen N
elevation, five tiers of windows are artfully disposed to suit the interior
requirements. White roughcast, green paint, unmoulded sandstone mullions and
transoms, set flush with the wall, battered buttresses, iron brackets under
the eaves, graded blue-green slates and big plain chimneys. A continuous
dripmould of rough slate links all the windows. What is so surprising about
the interior is its cosy scale. We enter into a low space which opens into
the double-height hall, lit by the full height of the centre bay, and warmed
by a huge walk-in fireplace – but these words imply a grandeur which is
conspicuously missing; the scale is always human, even slightly dwarfish.
The upstairs corridor bridges and looks down into it. Oak panelling without
mouldings. At the N end is the DRAWING ROOM, now the bar, with the
shallowest tiled bow for the fireplace. At the other end the DINING ROOM,
with a green-tiled fireplace, and more simplified panelling. That is all; it
was, after all, only a holiday home. The STAIR winds round four posts, and a
decorative slatted cage of balusters with inset hearts: Voysey's signature.
The upstairs rooms and corridor are very low for the date, but the roof
slopes intrude nonetheless. Only four bedrooms. Three have fireplaces of
narrow yellow-glazed bricks. The views from the curved bows are sensational.
LODGE. Also by Voysey. The stone is exposed, except
in the gables. Dovecote in the N gable.
Description on Historic England CARTMEL FELL NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD SD 39 SE (East side)
3/25 Broadleys Cottage 15.5.72 II House. 1898-1900. By C.F.A. Voysey. Roughcast with
hipped slate roof, one stack is coursed slate. One storey with attic, 3 bays.
Wide eaves and raking buttresses. Windows have casements, leaded glazing with
rectangular quarries; ground floor has 2:4:3-light windows. Large gabled dormer
to centre bay has 4-light window. Entrance to 2nd bay has plain door with
original handle with heart motifs; similar door to right return. 2 cross-axial
stacks, that to right is slate. Rear has gabled central bay. 3-light window to
1st bay; 2nd bay has 2-light windows to ground floors, single light to right,
possibly stair window; inserted small light to left of 1st floor window. Left
return has 4-light window. Interior not inspected.
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