The Dower House

BOYTON BOYTON VILLAGE ST 93 NE (south side) 8/22 The Dower House 11.9.68

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Boyton Cottage. Detached house. C18, altered early C19. Dressed limestone, hipped tiled roof, brick stacks with decorated pots. Two-storey, 3-windowed south front; sashes. Early C19 half-glazed door with panelled reveals and moulded architrave with dentilled porch on wooden Tuscan columns, either side are paired 12-pane flush sashes. First floor has sash over door and pair of sashes either side; the left hand pairs on both floors are at lower level than right hand pairs. Dentilled brick cornice to roof with two hipped dormers; 2-light casements. Right return has pair of flush sashes to ground floor and one sash and a pair to first floor, one hipped dormer to roof. Left return has attached single-storey extension with steel casements and hipped roof, blocked openings to main range. Rear has pair of 2- storey wings flanking narrow former courtyard, filled by C19 single-storey bay with 24-pane sash, first floor of main range has 12-pane sash. Interior has early C19 fittings; open well stairs with two stick balusters per tread, ramped handrail, wreathed at bottom, beaded door architraves, 4-panelled doors, internal window shutters. Formerly Dower House of Fane family to Boyton Manor (q.v.). Undergoing renovation at time of survey (April 1985). Probably originally L-plan with subsequent additions and remodelling in late C18 and early C19.

Listing NGR: ST9507839721