Boughton Hall

Boughton Hall is a country house, later used as a children's home and now offices for Barnardo's. It largely dates to the 17th century, with significant extensions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, further additions in the late 19th, and some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of old brown brick, partly dressed with stone, and yellow brick, with grey slate roofs. The house is arranged in an E-shape, with the recess to the left of the porch being built around 1800.

The left wing, built in the late 19th century, is three stories high and features sash windows with 16 panes to each floor, with the lower two floors flush. To the right of the porch is a recessed bay, containing a flush 16-pane sash under a relieving arch. Further right is a sash window, now with four panes, beneath a segmental arch, and a flush stone first-floor band to the porch bay and recessed bay. A 12-pane sash sits below a cambered head above the doorway, and a further 16-pane flush sash is in the recessed bay. The right wing has a 12-pane sash under a gauged brick arch. The original entrance has a basket-arched opening with an armorial stone above, now containing a replaced part-glazed door set within a substantial 17th-century oak case, and a studded broad-board inner door of oak. The right end of the building has a 20th-century outshut at ground floor, with a stone plinth, and a 16-pane recessed sash under a gauged brick arch in the older part of the building behind. Two recessed 12-pane sashes are on the first floor. The rear elevation features two 16-pane sashes and an inserted door on the ground floor, with subsequent alterations and extensions; two 12-pane sashes and a 16-pane sash are on the first floor. The late 19th-century left wing projects forward and has a stone-corbelled oriel on the east side and a circular stair turret further back on the right.

Internally, a late 16th- to 17th-century fireplace with tiled cheeks depicting biblical scenes survives, along with doors of six-margined panels. The L-shaped front room on the right side of the house has segmental Georgian arches defining each arm. A Georgian fireplace with Ionic columns is also present. A staircase on the right of the hall, likely oak, rises in one flight with winders, featuring an open string, shaped brackets, covered steps, curtail, rose, two turned balusters per step, and a swept rail. A Georgian fireplace and overmantel are located to the left of the hall, while an open-well oak staircase, probably inserted or partly replaced in the 19th century, is on the left. C17 hinges are visible on the inner side of the front door.