Tudor House

Tudor House is a house, formerly an inn and shop, now used as domestic accommodation. The core of the building dates to the 15th century, with extensions and partial remodelling in the early 17th century and early 19th century, and further additions and alterations in later years. It is timber framed with painted brick infill, and has plain tile roofs, with a hipped roof to the 19th-century addition.

Originally an open-hall with two wide-spaced timber frames in the centre, it includes a taller gabled cross-wing (which was formerly used as a barn but has now returned to domestic use) projecting to the right, and a 19th-century addition projecting to the left. The house has two storeys, with a former gable-lit attic to the cross-wing. The timber framing to the front is largely renewed and partly painted to imitate the original appearance; the hall range has square panels with large, short, straight tension braces. The cross-wing has rectangular panels, four from cill to wall-plate, with short, straight tension braces and slightly jowled wall posts. The original position of a window is visible in the front gable of the cross-wing, at first-floor level. The window arrangement is irregular, with one 19th-century casement and one small, horned sash window directly below the eaves on the left and right of the hall range. There are three-light casements to the ground floor in the far left section and immediately to the right of a roughly central 20th-century panelled door. The 19th-century addition features contemporary tripartite sash windows with fluted surrounds on each floor. Integral red brick end stack is located to the 19th-century addition at the junction with the hall range.

Inside, fragments of the timber frame are visible throughout the house. There are chamfered ceiling beams and joists. A ground-floor room in the hall range has a new cross-beam ceiling with exposed joists, featuring wheel-shaped bracing with chamfered edges and straight-cut stops. The hall-range has a single-purlin roof with straight windbraces and signs of smoke blackening. A central closed truss, retaining wattle and daub infill, has a cambered collar and king-strut. Roof trusses are also partly exposed in the cross-wing, but largely concealed by a late 20th-century inserted ceiling above tie beam level.