Box Hall

HOLLESLEY BOX HALL LANE TM 34 SW (south side) 10/119 Box Hall II Farmhouse. C16 with C17 and C19 additions. Timber framed with colourwashed brick skin of Flemish bond bricks and brick with plaintiled rcof formerly partially thatched. Entrance front: Projecting C17 wing at left with shaped gable end to which has been added a further, lower C19 gabled addition. C15 or C16 portico to right of this and recessed. In the re-entrant angle between the two wings is a further C19 addition. This has a C20 glazed doorway at left approached by 3 steps with a pergola before it. To first floor above this is a 2-light gabled dormer window. The C16 portion at right of this has C20 fenestration set into earlier openings. To right of centre are French windows and at either side of this 2-light casement windows set in cambered- headed openings. To left of centre is a 2-light gabled dormer window of C20 date. Gable stack at right and massive ridge stack at left of centre. The left hand wing has a shaped gable to the end of the C17 portion with concave lower mouldings and semi-circular top. Moulded brick coping and band of 2 bricks depth. Moulded kneelers and central chimney stack. The C19 addition has a blank gable end, its right hand flank has a glazed C20 door at right and a 2-light casement window at left. The left hand flank has the C17 portion at left housing a 3-brick band between the floors and two 2-light casement windows to the ground floor at right and two single-light windows at left. S and cross-shaped tie-rod plates to the first floor. 2-light gabled dormer windows to the first floor at left of C20 date. The roof is hipped at left and has the shaped gable at right. Lean-to outshut at left forming a catslide with the hipped roof. The C19 right hand extension has a 2-light casement to ground floor with cambered relieving arch and a similar window to the first floor. The right hand gable end has 2 ground floor single-light windows and 2 cambered-headed single casements to the first floor. The ground floor walling shows scars from an addition, now demolished. Rear: Catslide-roofed outshut at right immediately to left of which is a Cl9 half-glazed door. To left of this are three 2-light C20 casement windows. The two at right being placed in earlier openings and having cambered relieving arches over. Three 2-light gabled windows to the attic. Interior: chamfered ceiling beams to the ground floor rooms of the C16 portion and rafters.

Listing NGR: TM3408444775