Tan House

Tan House is a house dating from around the 15th century, which was remodeled and extended in the 17th century, with further alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with the front and side faced in stone rubble, and has slate roofs with gabled ends. There are gable-end stacks with later brick shafts and a truncated lateral stack at the rear wing.

The original layout consisted of a front range with two rooms and a central cross-passage, which was initially open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire. In the 17th century, the eaves were raised, and floors and gable end stacks were inserted. A one-room plan wing with a lateral stack was added behind the right-hand room of the front range. The building was partly refaced in stone in the 18th and/or 19th centuries, and outshuts were built at the left end and in the rear angle in the 20th century.

The house is two storeys tall and has a slightly asymmetrical two-window southeast front, featuring 20th-century three-light casements and a 20th-century door with a canopy to the right of centre. The northwest side facing the road has various two-light casements, some with cambered arches. The large framing is exposed on the rear elevation of the main range and in the gable of the wing to the left. There are 20th-century casements, a French casement, and an outshut in the angle of the rear wing next to a projecting oven, as well as a lean-to outshut on the southwest end of the main range.

Inside, the timber framing is exposed. The left-hand room has a chamfered framed ceiling, while the right-hand room features a chamfered axial beam and a deeply chamfered cross-beam in the rear wing, both without stops, along with chamfered joists in the rear wing. All ground floor rooms have stone fireplaces with timber lintels, with the fireplace in the rear wing having a brick oven to the side.

There is a full cruck truss, resembling a spere-truss, on the left side of the passage, featuring massive blades and a cambered collar that is halved and dovetail lap jointed to the principals, which are smoke-blackened in the roof space. The early carpentry appears to be largely intact, although the joinery is mostly from the 20th century.