Swiss Cottage

Swiss Cottage is a house located on Beresfords Hill in Boughton Monchelsea. It dates from the 17th century, with an earlier core, later additions, and early 19th-century alterations. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with a plain tile roof. The main range has two storeys, while a cross-wing to the left also has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar. There is a rendered plinth at the base.

The 17th-century cross-wing on the left is flush with the facade and features eaves that are higher than those of the main range, jettied on a moulded bressumer supported by shaped brackets. The gable of the wing has moulded bargeboards. To the right of the stack, there is a similar gable that rises above the main range's eaves, also on shaped brackets. The main range has a gable at its right end, and there is a rendered multi-flued stack on the front slope of the roof immediately to the right of the wing, as well as a rendered rear stack to the right.

The building has irregular fenestration with four windows: a pair of 12-pane sashes with a central mullion in the wing, one under the main-range gable, and a similar pair of 8-light sashes to the right of the main-range gable. There is also a 2-light casement under the stack. A single-storey porch with a flat roof, rendered and located under the stack, features a half-glazed door with a cambered head and margin lights. To the right, there is a short two-storey rendered rear wing.

Inside, the house contains early-to-mid 19th-century fireplaces, grates, and cornices, as well as a curved 19th-century staircase with stick balusters. The wing has a clasped purlin roof with windbraces, and there is a very small quantity of exposed framing.