Boat House C80 Metres West Of Bostock Hall

The boat house, located approximately 80 metres west of Bostock Hall, was built around 1870. It is constructed of red English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys.

On the lake front, the lower storey includes a round-headed boat arch, which has a chamfered string course at the level of the springing and alternating brick and ashlar voussoirs. A central keystone acts as a bracket for the ground floor. Above, there is a tripartite oriel window with four lights, where the two central lights are lower and supported by moulded wooden brackets that rise from the keystone below. An ashlar band with chevron moulding separates the floors, and there are ashlar pilaster pieces at the left and right corners.

The gable features decorative timber framing with a chevron pattern in the centre, along with further ashlar bands of chevron moulding replacing traditional bargeboards. On the left-hand reveal, there are three bays. A central doorway is situated above a splayed flight of two steps, flanked by carved brick parapet walls with ashlar coping. The ashlar doorcase includes blind Gothic tracery above the door and a hood mould with label stops. The rectangular door has cusped arched upper panels, with cross windows on either side that feature ashlar overthrows of blind cusped arches and hood moulds. There are also ashlar pilaster pieces on the sides and a chevron-patterned ashlar band at the eaves level.

The central gablet has an oculus, and there is a diamond-shaped spire on the roof ridge with four offsets at a lower level. A chimney stack is positioned to the left of the ridge. The left-hand reveal includes pilaster pieces at the corners, and there is a central slightly projecting bay with a canted oriel window at ground floor level, which has a round arched pedestrian entrance to the boathouse below in a brick-walled area. Above this is a gablet with decorative timber framing.