The Boat House

The Boat House is a disused boat-house built around 1835. It is constructed from dressed stone with rock-faced stone dressings and features a stone slate roof, all designed in a Tudor style with castellated elements. The building is single storey with a basement and has a three-bay facade that faces the lake. The outer bays contain two-light chamfered mullioned windows with arch-headed lights, sunken spandrels, and hoodmoulds. A chamfered cornice runs across the facade, and the embattled parapet extends to the sides. The central bay is taller and includes a segmental-arched watergate leading to the basement, with a three-light mullioned window above it, featuring a cornice and an embattled parapet at the front only. The roof is hipped and topped with a decorative wrought-iron finial, and there are end stacks. At the rear, there is a raised doorway with composite rock-faced jambs, accessed by a flight of seven stone steps, and a blocked basket-arched dog kennel underneath. Attached to the right-hand return wall of the flanking bay is a canted bay window that appears to reuse original 16th-century two-light arched windows on each face, which are also blocked, suggesting that the design of the other windows was inspired by these.