Boat House At East End Of Lake Approximately 300 Metres South Of Sarsden House

The boat house, located at the east end of the lake approximately 300 metres south of Sarsden House, was built around 1796 by Humphry Repton for John Langston. It features a boulder-faced sub-structure with a wooden superstructure and a rubble projection at the rear, topped with stone slate roofs. The design resembles a classical temple, with a sub-structure that includes a round-headed arch made of voussoirs. Above this, the 'temple' is styled as a distyle in antis portico of the Doric order, adorned with applied bark decoration on the columns and antae, which are wrapped with diagonally placed iron bands. There are round-headed arches on both sides, featuring wooden imposts and keystones. Inside, there is a wooden bench at the back, also decorated with applied bark. Humphry Repton, who created the lake, presented a Red Book to John Langston in March 1796, outlining improvements to Sarsden, including the lake. Drawings from the RIBA collection indicate that Repton initially planned for the boat house to be made of stone with Ionic columns, but this design was likely changed, as there is no evidence that a stone boat house was ever constructed.