Boughton Lodge And Attached Cottage

A house and attached cottage, dating from the late 16th or 17th century, although most visible features are from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is rendered with a grey slate roof and has a long, irregular plan.

The exterior is two storeys high. A pointed-arched doorway, designed in a 13th-century style, has shafts, bell-capital detailing, and a moulded arch. The door consists of nine Gothic panels, and timber-shafted posts support a lean-to porch roof. The left wing projects forward, with two front gables; the outward lean and slight jettying at first floor suggest a probable timber frame below the render. On the ground floor of the central block are a dual four-over-ten pane sash window and a sixteen-pane recessed sash to the left of the doorway, and to the right of the doorway are three Gothic casements with intersecting tracery glazing-bars. The right wing also projects. The first floor has a replaced three-pane window in the left wing, three twelve-pane sashes with thick glazing-bars in the central block, and a six-pane sash plus a Gothic window with intersecting tracery in the right wing. The left side of the left wing, which forms the cottage, has a ground-floor window and door, and two recessed twelve-pane sashes to the first floor.

The interior of part of the central block and the right wing were inspected. A staircase has an open string with winders at the bottom and top and features shaped brackets, stick balusters and a swept rail. It includes a Gothic door and two rooms with panelled and decorated plaster ceilings.