Tean Hall

Tean Hall is a large house dating to 1613, with a substantial early 18th century addition and mid-19th century alterations. The original part is timber-framed with closely spaced uprights, while the later addition is of red brick with stone dressings. The roofs are tiled, with a large central stack between the two sections.

The High Street frontage is divided into two sections. The right-hand side is the 17th-century part, two storeys high with a dormer lit attic. It features a lower, projecting gable with a quatrefoil pattern in the apex and a blind attic window. A glazing bar sash window is located to the right of the centre on the first floor, with a three-light casement below on the ground floor. A tall, full-storey gabled dormer is set to the left, inscribed “1613 A.D.” with a casement window and canted gable with a trefoil pattern above. The left-hand side is a taller, two-storey and attic projection.

The Baroque addition consists of two bays, the left of which projects forward. Both are framed by giant pilaster strips resting on a moulded plinth and ascending to an implied frieze and moulded cornice, all beneath hipped roofs. Each section has a single range of windows, with gabled dormers above glazing bar sashes. These dormers have gauged brick heads and raised keystones. The first-floor windows have raised aprons.

The elevation facing the hall yard continues the Baroque wing with similar details, but features an unusual arrangement of four windows (two dormers) closely set to the left of centre and widely spaced from the angles. Three of these windows are blocked, and one to the left of centre has been converted into an entrance with an overlight and panelled door.

The interior has been largely remodelled and subdivided. A dog-leg staircase with a heavy handrail situated at ramped angles, a closed string and turned balusters (one per tread) is located behind the left-hand side of the gabled timber-framed wing. A second staircase, a wide dog-leg with a swan-necked handrail, two turned balusters per tread, and fluted column balusters on the final tread, is found in the rear corner of the Baroque wing. The dining room on the first floor has dado panelling and a canvas-faced wall extending into a connecting corridor. An early 18th-century plaster and bolection moulded fireplace surround is in an adjacent room. The timber-framed wing retains some 18th-century panelling. A 19th-century board room on the ground floor retains a heavy cornice.