Tudor House

Tudor House is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century. It is timber framed with close studding on all sides and rendered infill. The front features a stone and Roman brick plinth, while the rear has a squared, coursed sandstone ground floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has brick ridge stacks. The building has a long range that runs from northwest to southeast, with a front range consisting of five bays and jettied gables above the attics, supported by moulded brackets. It has two storeys plus attics and a five-window range of five-light ovolo-moulded wood mullioned windows on the ground and first floors. There is an early 20th-century canted bay with sash windows on the ground floor to the center-right, and a two-light ovolo-moulded wood mullioned window at each jettied gable. Each gable apex features a wood moulded finial and pendant, which are now damaged. A 20th-century plank door is located at the center within a 20th-century timber gabled porch.

The rear of the building has a stone ground floor with a range of seven 16th-century one- and two-light ovolo-moulded mullioned windows, along with two 20th-century mullioned windows designed in an imitative style. The jettied first floor has a range of seven three-light wood mullioned windows with leaded lights. A six-panelled door is situated at the center within an 18th-century moulded stone surround featuring a keyblock. The left gable end has 19th-century brick infill and a 20th-century brick one-storey extension. The right gable end has two- and three-light wood mullioned windows, with one blocked two-light window on the ground floor.

Inside, the ground floor features original joists, 16th-century plank doors within moulded wood surrounds, and large open fireplaces, one of which has a 19th-century timber bressumer. There are two staircases with turned balusters leading from the ground floor to a long gallery, and close-studded partitions throughout the house. A spiral staircase rises from the first floor to the attics, and the roof has a queen-post structure with windbraces.

Historically, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have dined here when the house was owned by the Earl of Leicester. It later became the home of the Sitwell family.