The Tudor House

The Tudor House is a house that dates back to around 1600, originally divided into three tenements. It underwent alterations in the mid-19th century and was restored in the mid-20th century. The building features a timber-framed structure with rendered infill set on a sandstone rubble plinth, topped with machine-tiled roofs. It has a hall and cross-wing plan, with the hall part consisting of three framed bays aligned east to west. A large chimney is located in the central bay, backing onto a through-passage, with a brick ridge stack and an additional ridge stack at the left end. The cross-wing, which has two framed bays, is situated at the east gable end of the hall.

The house is two storeys high. The framing includes four panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with short straight braces in the upper corners. The south gable end of the cross-wing features a jettied first floor supported by brackets and an arch-braced tie-beam above. The trusses in the hall have collars and tie-beams with struts, while the cross-wing trusses have two collars.

On the south front elevation, all windows are 20th-century leaded casements. The hall part has a ground floor with a 2-light and a 3-light window, along with a large 20th-century oriel window. The first floor includes a 2-light window and two single-light windows. The main entrance, located to the left of centre, features a 20th-century door accessed by a flight of sandstone steps. The cross-wing has a ground floor 20th-century oriel window and a first floor 2-light window in its gable end. There are slate weatherings at the first floor level of the hall part and at the tie-beam level of the cross-wing.

Inside, the house has stop-chamfered main ceiling beams and a very large sandstone fireplace, approximately ten feet wide, in the former hall. There is a 20th-century addition at the rear. It is noted that the house was divided into three tenements for needlemakers during the 19th century.