Bovills Hall

Bovills Hall is a farmhouse that dates from the 15th century or early 16th century, with significant alterations made around 1600, as well as in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a largely modified open-hall house consisting of two or three cells, with one-and-a-half storeys and attics. The structure is timber-framed, primarily encased in 19th-century flint rubble with red brick quoins. A Flemish gable was added in the 19th century. The roof is plaintiled and features gabled casement dormers; there is a 17th or 18th-century gable chimney made of gault and red brick, with 20th-century diagonally-set square flues. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. A 19th-century one-storey lean-to porch with a 20th-century glazed entrance door is also present. Inside, the two-bay open hall retains part of the central open truss, with jowled storey posts, an uncambered tie-beam, and part of an unchamfered arch brace. Some close-studded walling from a closed truss and the lodged floor joists of a storeyed end room can be seen. The first floor was added to the hall around 1600. The house was extended to the left and right, and the roof was rebuilt in the 18th century. A large two-storey extension at the rear, built in the mid-19th century, is not considered of special interest. The building is included in the register despite its later alterations due to the good quality of its 15th-century core.