Manor Cottage and attached House

This is a house, originally part of a courtyard range on a moated site. It likely dates to the 16th century, with extensions and remodelling occurring around the 17th and 18th centuries, and further alterations in the 20th century. The construction is of coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, with rendered front and back elevations. It has a plain tile roof with stone capping to the gable ends. The east end is of coursed ironstone rubble, extended in brick and with a thatched roof with gable ends. Brick gable end stacks are present.

The original western range was probably the south side of buildings surrounding a courtyard within a moat. It was likely two stories and open to the roof, converted into a house in the 18th century. The circa 17th-century extension on the right (east) end appears to have been extended again and converted into a two-room plan cottage in the 18th century. Rear wings were added in the 20th century.

The exterior presents as a two-story, four-window range to the left, and a one-story, attic, two-window cottage extension to the right. There are 20th-century casements. A late 20th-century conservatory is located on the right of the original range, and a central doorway on the right-hand range has been blocked. The original range has ashlar buttresses at the corners with weathering, and a carved stone gable kneeler. A 20th-century gable-ended brick wing is located at the rear of the original range.

Inside the original range, the smaller right-hand room features large, unchamfered joists and a large fireplace with a cambered, chamfered timber bressumer. It also has a five-bay roof with large tie-beam trusses, straight collars, clasped side purlins, and a complete set of coupled rafters. The cottage extension’s right-hand room retains a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. This room has a large fireplace with a boxed-in bressumer and attic spaces that are ceiled, but with large waney side purlins exposed. A winder staircase connects the rooms.

A circa 18th-century Boughton Park Estate map, reportedly drawn by the Second Duke of Montagu, depicts the moat and a complete range of buildings around the courtyard.