Boughton Court Boughton Aluph, England
Listed Building Data
Boughton Court has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1362711
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 13 October 1952
- Name
- BOUGHTON COURT
- Location
- BOUGHTON COURT, CHURCH LANE
- Parish
- Boughton Aluph
- District
- Ashford
- County
- Kent
- Grid Reference
- TR 03280 48209
- Easting
- 603279.5210
- Northing
- 148208.7900
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TR 04 NW BOUGHTON ALUPH CHURCH LANE (west end)
5/7 Boughton Court
13.10.52 II*
Manor House. C14 crypt, with C16 structure over reclad in C19. Stone crypt, timber framed over, clad in red brick with plain tile roof. 2 storeys on brick and rubble plinth; kneelered parapet gables to roof with stack to left, central stack and end stack to right. Regular fenestration of 5 three-light Dering windows with drip moulds. C19 plank door in 2 storey porch, in the upper storey a 2 light Dering window and small bullseye over that. Interior: the central doorway leads into a barrel vaulted passage through the central chimney stack, an arrangement dating from the insertion of the stack into an earlier screens passage. The house to right of the central stack stands on a 4 bay vaulted crypt. This has a blocked doorway to the front of the house, and an internal stairway into the house. On either end wall are ogee-headed niches. The vault ribs are double-chamfered, the whole structure has similarities to nearby church of All Saints, and like the main body of the church dates to the time of Sir Thomas de Aldon, owner of the manor c1329-61, and who had licence to crenellate his house 1339. See Igglesdon, XXV and B.O.E., Kent II, 150.
Listing NGR: TR0327948214
