The Tan House

The Tan House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of red brick, with the left gable end roughcast, and features a slate roof with external end stacks, the larger of which is on the left. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a dentilled eaves cornice and a cellar. The front facade is slightly irregularly spaced with three windows, which contain four-paned sashes set in segmental-headed openings, with the upper left window being blind. There are two hip-roofed eaves dormers featuring 20th-century casements. A plank door is located in the left bay, sheltered by a 20th-century open gabled timber porch.

To the left, there is a single-storey early 19th-century addition that has a 20th-century casement window on the front. Inside, the left ground-floor room has two chamfered spine beams, exposed joists, and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered segmental wooden lintel. The timber-framed cross wall has square panels. The front right room features a timber-framed spine wall with square panels that separates it from the back room, which serves as a pantry. The front room has a chamfered spine beam and joists, while the back room has joists only. There is an inset panelled wall cupboard to the left of the chimney breast in the front room, which has a mix of H- and L-hinges.

The 18th-century staircase in the left room has turned balusters on an open string and a plain moulded handrail. The central wall on the first floor has large square and rectangular panels. The left room is divided by a partition spine wall with light square panels, and a similar wall in the right room has framing concealed by wallpaper at the time of the resurvey in February 1987. The floors are wide boarded oak, and the doors are panelled and plank, similar to those on the ground floor. An oak staircase in the rear left room has a right-angled turn leading to the attic, which features a central collar and tie beam truss with vertical struts from the tie beam to the collar and raking struts to the principal rafters.