Boundary House,Including Gatepiers And Wall

Boundary House is a former rectory, now a large private house, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone with alternating chamfered quoins, and has a moulded stone modillion cornice and a hipped roof covered in Cotswold stone slates, featuring a tall parapet with four stone panels and a central dentil pediment. Brick end stacks are present. The building is arranged as a long range with a central projecting rear bay, forming a shallow T-shape, and an additional single-bay wing to the left. It has three storeys and a basement.

The main, symmetrical front range has five bays, with a 2/1/2 window arrangement. The wide centre bay projects forward beneath the pediment, accentuated by additional quoins. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with moulded stone architraves and dentil cornices to the first and ground floors. The centre bay on the first floor features a Venetian window with moulded stone architraves and dentil cornice, as well as four Ionic pilasters and a blocked round-headed section with decorative Gothick tracery. The ground floor has a doorcase leading up three large semi-circular stone steps, flanked by 8-pane side lights. The central door features a large moulded stone segmental pediment on consoles, a moulded stone frame, six rectangular fielded panels, and a lower section in a fielded X-shape. The attic storey has small 6-pane sashes with moulded stone architraves linked directly to the cornice, with a round-headed central window. Basement windows are set below the stone offset, with plain round-headed stone architraves and keystones. A 12-pane sash with a plain stone architrave is visible on each floor of the left-hand wing. The projecting rear wing also incorporates a Venetian window on the first floor.

The interior is not accessible, but is likely to be of interest. The gatepiers are constructed of dressed stone with rusticated square piers, a moulded modillion cornice, and a figure of a dog's head on a double-stepped base, standing approximately 2 metres tall. Possible original polygonal finials, similar to those on Chestnut Park Farmhouse, may be located at the top of the stone steps behind the piers. No gates remain. The wall adjoining the property on both sides is constructed of coped rubblestone (random coursed to the left), curving back approximately 16 metres to join the house on the left, and running approximately 7 metres to the right to connect with the gatepiers of Chestnut Park Farmhouse. The wall stands approximately 1.40 metres high.