Tilstock Hall Farmhouse

Tilstock Hall Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 16th century, with additions from 1682 and 1861. The original structure is timber-framed with brick nogging, with some areas rebuilt in brick. Later additions are in red brick with yellow/grey sandstone ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered in plain tiles.

The original framing consists of closely spaced studs with a middle rail. The plan is a baffle-entry layout of three framed bays, featuring a 17th-century two-storey gabled brick porch and a large 19th-century Gothic addition to the south.

The west front has a brick ridge stack off-centre to the right, with four star-shaped shafts, and an integral brick end stack to the left with two square shafts. There are two window openings; the later 19th or 20th century metal casements, except for a 20th-century two-light wooden casement on the ground floor to the left. An inserted 20th-century sliding boarded garage door is located off-centre to the left. A 17th-century gabled porch is on the right, with a plinth, flush quoins, and a string course with a cyma-recta moulding on the left-hand return front. The left-hand return front has a first-floor two-light wooden casement, a ground-floor segmental-headed two-light wooden casement to the right, and a doorway to the left with an ovolo-moulded wooden frame. A late 19th-century lean-to timber-framed porch sits in the angle, with a stone-capped brick plinth, glazed side, and a nail-studded 19th-century boarded door. A doorway to the main range is behind the porch. The left-hand gable end contains a collar and cambered tie-beam truss. The rear has a framed outshut to the right. A central gabled dormer with a two-light wooden casement is present.

An 1861 block to the south is constructed of red brick with blue brick and grey sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof. It is in a Gothic style, with two storeys, a plinth, parapeted gables with shaped kneelers and copings, and a pair of stacks to the north. The block is arranged in a 1:1:1 bay configuration with a central break, featuring Gothic wooden cross windows. A central first-floor oriel has a circular datestone in the gable above. A central half-glazed Gothic door has flanking buttresses and side lights.

The interior was only partly inspected, but reveals a timber-framed range with chamfered beams. The gable end of the 17th-century two-storey porch was rebuilt in the mid-20th century, meaning the original date stone was not replaced; this stone, rectangular with a cyma-recta moulded cornice and the inscription "M/ R M/ 1682", now leans against a farmyard wall.