Description

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46NW FILKINS LANE
1932-1/2/36 (South side)
10/01/72 Nos.58 AND 60
Boughton Lodge and attached cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAPEL LANE
Boughton Lodge)

GV II

House and cottage, now house, flats and cottage. Late C16 or
C17 but visible features mostly C18 and early C19. Rendered;
grey slate roofs. Long, irregular in plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Pointed-arched doorway in C13 manner with
shafts, bell-capitals and moulded arch, with door of 9 Gothick
panels, timber shafted posts support lean-to porch roof. The
left wing projects, with 2 front gables; outward lean and
slight jettying at first floor suggest a probable timber frame
beneath the render. Ground floor of central block has a dual
4;10-pane sash and a 16-pane recessed sash left of doorway
and, right of doorway, 3 Gothick casements with
intersecting-tracery glazing-bars; the right wing projects.
The first floor has a replaced 3-pane window in left wing,
three 12-pane sashes with thick glazing-bars in central block
and a sash of 6 rectangular panes plus a Gothick window with
intersecting tracery in the right wing. The left side of the
left wing, which forms the cottage, has a ground-floor window
and door and 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to first floor.
INTERIOR: only the ground floor of part of central block and
the right wing were seen. Open-string stair with winders
bottom and top, shaped brackets, stick balusters and swept
rail; a Gothick door; 2 rooms with panelled and decorated
plaster ceilings.

Listing NGR: SJ4239166287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Boughton Lodge at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4949431

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Recommended Books

• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)