Boughrood Court

Boughrood Court is a largely 17th-century manor house with a later cottage attached, situated within a courtyard plan. The building is constructed from coursed rubble local stone, covered by a slate roof. The main element comprises the three bays at the north end, forming the court, along with the cottage in the two bays to the south. A continuous lean-to extension runs along the rear. A 17th-century gabled open stone porch with side benches stands at the north end, its outer opening possibly rebuilt with a segmental head. The inner door has an oak frame with double ovolo and quirk moulding, and a four-plank door with ogee-moulded coverstrips, fully studded, retaining original ironmongery. Most windows are 19th and 20th-century replacements, except for the six-pane sashes on the ground floor, and the raised gables either side of the porch. These have flush timber lintels, drip mouldings, and small ovolo-moulded lights in the attic space. The building features 19th-century bargeboards with spaced roundels. A two-and-a-half storey rear wing extends from the main block, containing a 17th-century stair that occupies one third of its width, and has two windows to each floor, with oak lintels and a drip course.

The original building uses cruck construction, with four bays defined by cruck timbers; three couples remain – one opposite the entrance to the court, one within the stack of the cottage, and one at the lower end. These crucks feature deep elbows and bareface half-dovetailed lap joints, the apex tenoned and notched for the ridge. Large scantling purlins are also present. The end parlour has an axial beam and wall beams carrying the floor, all with elongated ogee chamfer stops. The main hall contains four longitudinal beams with similar elongated ogee stops, and a late 17th- or early 18th-century bolection-moulded fireplace, with a later mantle shelf. Each room has a rear door leading into the stairwell, each set within a shaped head frame (one head now removed to the cellar). The oak stair has a moulded handrail on pierced and shaped splat balusters between square newels, which rise to moulded cagework terminals. This motif is repeated on an applied board between the doors to the first-floor rooms. The stair bears a mark, 'I.F. 1856', but this does not indicate a date for significant alteration. Small rooms or closets off the stairway have ovolo moulded oak lintels with ogee stops to the windows. An arch-headed door at the head of the stair leads to the roof space.