Boucherne

Boucherne is a house that has been converted into an old people's home. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century and features a timber frame that is rendered, topped with gabled plain tile roofs. The building has a ridgeline stack at the north-west end and two stacks in the central valley, which may have been part of a former rear wall.

The structure consists of two parallel ranges, with a 20th-century two-storey extension at the north-west corner that has a plain tile roof set at right angles to the main block. The house is two storeys tall with an attic and has a six-window range. The front elevation includes a plain parapet and three lead-roofed dormers, each fitted with a 20-pane sash window. Both the first and ground floors feature six unequally spaced 12-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds. The off-centre doorcase is topped with a hood and flanked by fluted Doric pilasters, leading to a door with four raised-and-fielded panels over two flush panels.

The south-east side of the house has two unequal gables, with the wider front part featuring 20th-century French windows. The rear section has a 16-pane sash window on each floor. The rear elevation displays 20th-century pargetting and three 16-pane sashes with moulded surrounds on the first floor. The ground floor includes an off-centre door with an early 19th-century hood, moulded architrave, and a door with nine panes over two flush panels, along with two 10-paned fixed windows and a 16-pane sash. The 20th-century rear extension has a black weatherboarded first floor and hardwood sash windows.

Inside, the hardwood timber frame is partly exposed, revealing numerous bays. A wide entrance hall leads to the main staircase in the rear range, which is L-shaped and cantilevered, featuring a wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and shaped tread ends. The handrail at the first-floor landing has an attractive bowed projection and cusping on the exposed floor edge. There is a service staircase between the first floor and the attics in the front range, which has column balusters. The south-east ground-floor room has simple stripped late 18th-century panelling, and all timberwork has been stripped. It also features a shouldered fire surround architrave and a small corner cupboard that may have originated from another location.