Tilley Manor

Tilley Manor is a farmhouse dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber-framed with painted brick infill, a sandstone plinth, and a plain tile roof. The design is U-shaped, with two-bay cross-wings that flank a central hall range of baffle-entry type, which extends a single bay to the right of the right cross-wing. The house has two storeys. The exposed framing to the gable of the right cross-wing shows square panels, 3½ from sill to wall-plate. The attic is jettied with a moulded bressumer and three collars; raking struts are between the bressumer and lower collar, and there are double-purlin ends. The gable of the left cross-wing has herringbone struts above the tie beam, supported by carved corner brackets. The timber-framed gable to the centre of the hall range has a moulded bressumer and carved consoles. Later 19th and 20th century casement windows have 19th-century bracketed hoods, one on each floor of the cross-wings and to the central gable. A 19th-century four-panel door is under a contemporary bracketed gabled hood to the left of the hall range, with a roughcast axial ridge stack immediately to its left. The cross-wings have integral lateral stacks, the right one with a tall red brick shaft, and the left with a stone shaft that is internally roughcast. The interior of the ground-floor room of the hall range features twin chamfered spine beams and heavy joists with ogee stops. A massive brick stack to the hall range has a sandstone inglenook fireplace with a moulded wooden lintel in the cross-wing side. The front room of the left cross-wing has 17th-century rectangular oak panelling with a fluted frieze and a flat cross-beam ceiling with ogee stops. The hall stack steps up to the first floor. Exposed purlins and straight windbraces are visible, but roof trusses were concealed by wallpaper at the time of a resurvey in March 1986.