Boat House Known As Water House

REDGRAVE REDGRAVE PARK TM 061766 2/84 Boat House known as Water - House GV II Boat house, latterly a gamekeeper's cottage for Redgrave Park Estate. Designed as part of landscaping of the park to be an eyecatcher from Redgrave Hall (demolished). c.1766-70, by Capability Brown for R Holt; extended and slightly raised early and late C19. White brick and flint with stone dressings and later red brick. Black glazed pantiled roof. A rectangle on plan with a lean-to added on one side. 2 storeys. Gable end facing former Hall has an entrance with a half glazed door, gauged brick flat arched head; above a string course and a blocked lunette all in a relieving arch. Outside the arch this facade has banded rustication, flint rubble with rendered bands, above a moulded pediment. Early C19 lean-to to left also has rusticated flint. Symmetrical 3 bay right return is all white brick and faces lake, ground floor gauged brick flat arched heads, first floor stone sills, dentilled timber eaves. Left return on lean-to is flint with a ground floor 2-light casement, first floor 2-light glazing bar horizontal sliding sash. To rear red and white brick with a door into lean-to, ground floor gauged brick heads, original wallplates exposed. Roof raised in late C19 with red brick above original roof line. (D. Stroud, Capability Brown, 1975, pp.112-13).

Listing NGR: TM0612476611