Building record 131/2/2 - Boathouse at Great Moreton Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56588 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Boathouse and summerhouse formed from an eighteenth century brick farmbuilding, to which were added ashlar remnants from the demolished body of the seventeenth century Great Moreton Hall, to form an eye catcher. This was further altered by the addition of a boathouse adjoining one side when the lake was formed in the nineteenth century. Red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings and ashlar with timber framing and a roof of fishscale tiles. Two storeys with an attic. The lake front has the nineteenth century boathouse to the front, this has a lower body of ashlar with a pointed archway at centre. Above this is a row of wooden corbels supporting a jettied gable with decorative timber framed infill. Pierced bargeboards and moulded bargepost to apex. To left of this is a further lean-to boathouse with a lean-to roof. Behind the centre is the brick body of the earlier farmbuilding which has a hipped roof of slate. The right hand side has the boathouse at left which has ashlar walling and to right of this is the brick tower with a nineteenth century leanto of ashlar at ground floor level incorporating a seventeenth century window of 2 lights with a chamfered ashlar surround. The left hand side has a canted bay window to first floor level with a hipped roof supported on a porch with 4-centred arches. To the rear wall is a 2-light window with chamfered surround. The rear has a porch of square plan with 4-centred arches at front and left with a doorway behind. To right of this is a flight of steps leading to the top of the porch which has a doorway with a 4-centred massive lintel. At left of the porch is a portion of ashlar walling with a 2-light window with chamfered surround.

<2> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, p.228-9 (Book). SCH3078.

Stonework from the hall building (CHER131/2/1) was probably used to dress up the boathouse.