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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26428975

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)