Bottisham House, Boundary Wall And Clairvoyee

This is a farmhouse dating to around 1830, likely constructed for Henry King to replace an earlier building on the same site. It’s built of grey brick with a low-pitched slate roof, featuring deep boarded eaves and ridge stacks. The design reflects a late Georgian villa style, with a double-fronted, double-pile plan. The house has two storeys and attics, with two dormers. The front elevation has three recessed sash windows with sixteen panes, each set within a gauged brick arch. A later stone portico with Tuscan columns sits centrally, raising the ground level by three steps and partially obscuring a double round-headed doorway. The door itself is six-panelled, topped with a round-headed fanlight. A brick kitchen wing extends to the rear and side. The interior of this wing reveals evidence of a previous clunch building. A wrought iron clairvoyee (a small covered way or porch) is integrated into the grey brick boundary wall, running in line with the rear doorway and morning-room window. Inside, a paved hall leads to a principal staircase with a curtail and scrolled ends, square balusters and a mahogany rail. Separate entrances are located at the front and rear of the house. Two ground-floor rooms feature marble fireplaces and contemporary plaster cornice mouldings.