Tilley Hall and attached walls to front and rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1960. Farmhouse.
Tilley Hall and attached walls to front and rear
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tilley Hall is a farmhouse dating back to 1613, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed and has rendered wattle and daub infill, covered by plain tile roofs. Originally, the house was likely a T-plan design, with a further gabled range added shortly after, creating the current H-plan layout. The building has two storeys with attics to the cross-wings.
The timber framing displays close studding with three middle rails to the hall range and left cross-wing, and two middle rails to the right cross-wing, which has square panels to the rear. The right gable features cusped quatrefoils above the tie beam and curved struts to the upper collar. The left gable has hewn jettying to the first floor and attic, a ground-floor bressumer with a linked chain motif and billet moulding, and a first-floor bressumer with intertwined motifs and billet moulding, along with carved corner brackets. First-floor decoration includes diamond-shaped patterns, cross-shapes, and cusped quatrefoils towards the top. The attic has concave lozenges and curved struts to the upper collar. A regularly coursed and dressed sandstone plinth for a half-cellar sits beneath the right gable, featuring two infilled windows to the front and similar square windows to the sides. The windows are largely late 19th-century casements, with one on each floor to the left gable and to the left and right of the hall range, and only to the attic on the right gable. The position of two infilled mullion windows is visible on the right wall of the left gable.
A central 17th-century nail-studded door is located under a 19th-century gabled timber porch, with the date "1613" painted in 19th-century numerals on the lintel. A sandstone axial ridge stack to the right of the hall range has an original moulded base but a late 19th-century red brick top. A similar internal end stack, featuring paired rebated shafts and a 20th-century purple brick top, is located to the left at the junction with the left cross-wing. There is also an integral lateral stack to the left cross-wing.
Attached to the front is a wall with regularly coursed and dressed sandstone on the right side, red brick with a chamfered sandstone plinth and coping to the front, and 19th-century red brick to the left side. A rear wall is constructed of regularly coursed and dressed sandstone with triangular coping.
The interior of the right gable includes a chamfered ceiling with heavy joists to the ground floor and an infilled inglenook fireplace. A large ground-floor room in the hall range has deep-chamfered ceiling beams, heavy joists, and an enclosed staircase with panelling to one side. A stone inglenook fireplace to the right has a moulded surround and mantel-shelf, and a stone-flag floor. The back room of the left cross-wing is notable for its complete rectangular oak panelling and a stone inglenook fireplace with enriched round-headed arch decoration on the wooden overmantel, accompanied by a flat cross-beam ceiling. Timber-framed cross walls are present throughout the house, mostly concealed by wallpaper. Inspection of the first floor and attic was not possible during a resurvey in 1986, but they are considered likely to be of interest.
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