Description

SE31NW CHEVET NEWMILLERDAM (east side)

2/3 The Boat-House 22.11.66 II

Boat-house, disused. c1835. Dressed stone with rock-faced stone dressings, stone slate roof. Tudor style. Castellated. Fronts lake. Single storey with basement. 3-bay facade. Quoins. Outer bays have 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with arch-headed lights, with sunken spandrels and hoodmoulds. Chamfered cornice continues across facade. Embattled parapet returned to sides. Central bay is taller and has segmental-arched watergate to basement with 3-light mullioned window above with cornice and embattled parapet to front only. Hipped roof with decorative wrought-iron finial. End stacks. Rear has raised doorway with composite rock-faced jambs approached up a flight of 7 stone steps with basket-arched dog kennel under (blocked). Attached to right-hand return wall of flanking bay is canted bay window which appears to re-use original C16 two-light arched window to each face (blocked) from which it would appear the design of the other windows was taken.

Listing NGR: SE3351115582

External Links

• Wikidata Q26428975

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)