The Dower House

The Dower House is a detached house located in Boyton, dating from the 18th century and altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone with a hipped tiled roof and features brick stacks topped with decorated pots. The south front is two stories high with three windows, all fitted with sash windows. The entrance has an early 19th-century half-glazed door set within panelled reveals and a moulded architrave, supported by a dentilled porch on wooden Tuscan columns. On either side of the door are paired 12-pane flush sashes. The first floor includes a sash window above the door and a pair of sashes on either side, with the left-hand pairs on both floors positioned lower than those on the right. A dentilled brick cornice runs along the roof, which has two hipped dormers with 2-light casements.

The right side of the house features a pair of flush sashes on the ground floor and one sash along with a pair on the first floor, with one hipped dormer above. The left side has a single-storey extension with steel casements and a hipped roof, along with blocked openings to the main range. At the rear, there are two-storey wings flanking a narrow former courtyard, which is now filled by a 19th-century single-storey bay with a 24-pane sash window, while the first floor of the main range has a 12-pane sash.

Inside, the house retains early 19th-century fittings, including an open well staircase with two stick balusters per tread, a ramped handrail that is wreathed at the bottom, beaded door architraves, four-panelled doors, and internal window shutters. The Dower House was formerly associated with the Fane family of Boyton Manor. It was undergoing renovation at the time of the survey in April 1985 and likely started as an L-plan structure with later additions and remodelling in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.