Box End House

Box End House is a late 16th-century timber-framed house, likely originally designed in an H-plan. The right-hand cross wing has been removed, and its gable end has been built up with stone rubble. The left-hand wing was extended forward by one bay in the 17th or early 18th century. In 1847, a new principal range was constructed parallel to the original, facing south.

The original main wing is two storeys high, featuring heavy close studding visible on the front and internally on the former rear elevation, topped with an old clay tile roof. There is a two-storey central gabled porch that is timber-framed and open on the ground floor. The windows are cross-mullioned timber casements with leaded lights. A large stone chimney stack has been inserted into the left end, with a tall paired-shaft brick chimney stack, likely from the late 17th century.

The surviving cross wing includes a two-bay timber-framed addition from the 17th or early 18th century on the left side, which has an external stone chimney stack. The 1847 range is two storeys tall, built of coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings and Jacobean detailing. It features a gabled tile roof with saddlestones and kneelers, topped with chimneys that have octagonal pairs of shafts.

The south garden front has three bays with four-light lozenge-leaded stone mullioned transomed windows on the ground floor and three-light similar windows, with a two-light window in the centre, on the first floor, breaking through corbelled eaves. The gables are kneelered and finialed. There is a central shallow porch with a moulded lintel and three-light windows above. A weathered string is carved across the ground floor, stepping up over the window and porch. Inside, one of the first-floor rooms features an early 17th-century wall painting depicting a bull-baiting scene, with a charging bull surrounded by dogs, horsemen, and hunters, executed in monochrome distemper with the bull's and dogs' tongues coloured red.