West Bowers Hall

West Bowers Hall is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations and additions, including a 20th-century right gabled crosswing that incorporates medieval timber. The building features an exposed timber frame with arched bracing and red plain tiled roofs. It has external red brick chimney stacks on the left and right, and a central chimney stack with four attached diagonal shafts. The house is two storeys high with attics.

The original left range includes a central gabled stair turret and a moulded bressummer above the first-floor jetty. The windows are mainly a 2:1:1 arrangement of variously sized 20th-century casements, except for an original six-light mullion window to the left of the stair turret, a bay window on the ground floor to the left, and two-storey five-light bays in the 20th-century extension. There are gabled attic dormers at the rear and on the return of the extension.

The entrance features an original 12-panelled nailed door with rails and muntins, surrounded by carvings of vases and other designs. Inside, notable features include a fine 17th-century panelled room with pilasters, a carved and panelled fire surround with segmental arches in the overmantel, jowled storey posts, stop-chamfered bridging joists, and a moulded wall plate in the first-floor corridor. There are two original first-floor brick fireplaces, one with a stop-chamfered segmental head and the other with a stepped surround and segmental pointed head. An open well staircase boasts a moulded handrail and heavy turned balusters.

On the ground floor, there is a room with 18th-century panelling and a corner cupboard, possibly relocated from another site. The hall features a woodblock floor sourced from Chelmsford Cathedral. The roof structure is of good quality, with side purlins. The current owner possesses a Heptaglottan dated 1669, authored by Edmundus Castellos, who was the owner of the house at that time.