Boyce Court

Boyce Court is a house built in the early 17th century, with alterations made in the second quarter of the 19th century. The front of the house is rendered to resemble ashlar, except for the ground floor, which features banded rustication. The rear wing is constructed of Flemish-bond brickwork and has a slate roof. The garden front has five windows and is two rooms deep, standing three storeys tall with an L-shaped rear wing and a two-storey single-room wing on the left.

The garden front is symmetrical, with a slightly projecting central bay. It has a plain plinth and a recessed porch accessed by one stone step, framed by Doric pilasters and featuring Greek key ornamentation on the stem, topped with a flat head. There is a semi-circular niche on each side of the porch, which contains a four-panel door set in a half-glazed screen with small octagonal panes. On either side of the door are two sash windows, with a moulded string course above. The first floor has five sash windows with eared surrounds and slightly projecting aprons below, topped by another moulded string course. The second floor features five nine-pane sashes with beaded surrounds. The house has wide, moulded eaves, a hipped roof, and chimneys located on the ridge to the left of centre and at the right end.

The lower wing on the left has a sash window on each side of a 15-pane sash that extends to floor level, accessed by two stone steps. Above this are two four-pane sashes with cambered heads, set within flat-headed openings, and the wing has a flat roof.

Inside, the ground floor hall behind the porch features a dentil cornice. The room on the left has panelled shutters, a moulded door surround with corner paterae, and an ornate plaster cornice. The room beyond on the left also has panelled shutters and ceiling beams, along with a plaster cornice. The house originally had an 'H' plan layout and is said to contain a ceiling dated 1603. One wing was replaced in the early 19th century with a three-storey block that includes a large circular staircase located behind the centre of the original house. In 1935, the circular stairs and all but one room of the old house were demolished.