Box Farmhouse

Box Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It has two storeys and attics, built in a three-cell plan. The structure is timber-framed, covered with rough 20th-century render, and topped with clay pantiles. An internal chimney stack features a plain red brick shaft. The building has 20th-century casement windows and a plank door. The frame consists of six bays, including a chimney bay, and is currently arranged as a lobby entrance, though it was likely originally a cross-entry. Inside, some good quality plain framing is visible, with moulded post-heads supporting the trusses. The main beams display stop-chamfered profiles with stepped stops and bars. In the rear wall of the middle room, there is a blocked window with late 17th-century square moulded mullions that replaced earlier ones, along with some original four-light and five-light windows featuring diamond mullions still in place. The roof, which corresponds to the wall bays, has clasped purlins, a lower row of unstepped butt purlins, and remnants of arched windbraces. The house is currently awaiting restoration.