Bohuns Hall

Bohuns Hall is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The house is timber-framed and primarily clad in red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with some parts plastered. The roof is mainly covered with handmade red clay tiles, with some 20th-century concrete tiles also present. The building is arranged with four bays aligned approximately north to south, featuring an axial stack to the south of the centre and a three-bay crosswing to the north. There is an 18th or 19th-century dairy to the north of the crosswing, along with lean-to extensions in the northeast angle and to the east of the crosswing. A parallel range dating from the 18th or 19th century stands to the east of the main range, incorporating an internal stack at its north end. A mid-19th-century single-storey entrance hall is positioned on the east side, constructed from painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern and featuring a clerestorey hipped roof covered with decorative semi-octagonal slates. The house has three storeys. The east-facing elevation has a scattered arrangement of windows. In the entrance hall are two Gothic Revival windows with two-centred heads, alongside a mid-19th-century sash window with a 3 + 6 light configuration. A four-panel door, with glazed upper panels and a shallow canopy supported by scrolled brackets, provides access. The west-facing elevation of the main block is clad in painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The ground floor features one 19th-century splayed bay with sashes of 6-12-6 lights, two late-19th-century sashes of 3 + 6 lights, and one of 1 + 2 lights. The first and second floors have late-19th-century sashes of 6, 6, 2, and 6 lights respectively. The crosswing’s ground floor displays two 18th or early 19th-century sashes of 12 lights, while the first floor has one 18th or early 19th-century tripartite sash window of 4-12-4 lights. A brick string course on the main block continues as a plaster band on the crosswing. Four plaster diamonds are visible on the main block at second-floor height, and one appears on the gable of the crosswing. The ridge of the main block is decorated with crested tiles. The interior of the main block includes transverse beams, some of which are boxed in, and one which is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The walls were built up in brick in the mid-19th century to create three storeys. The crosswing exhibits jowled posts, arched braces to the tiebeams, and primary straight bracing, some of which are exposed. The entrance block on the east side is noteworthy and appears to have been built above a contemporary cellar.