Tytchney Gables

Tytchney Gables is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations and additions made in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The building features a timber-framed structure with rendered infill and a sandstone rubble base, topped with plain tiled roofs. It has a parapet at the right gable end and three brick ridge stacks with a joint cap, as well as external chimneys at the rear and right end that have offsets.

The house has a hall and cross-wing plan, with the hall consisting of two framed bays and an inserted chimney at the upper end that creates a lobby-entry at the front. The left gable end contains a two-bay cross-wing, which faces the road, and there is a single bay wing added to the rear gable end of the cross-wing, positioned at right angles. The building is part single storey and attic, part two-storey, attic, and cellar.

In terms of framing, the main range has three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, while the cross-wing has two panels from the sill to the girding-beam and two more above the girding-beam to the wall-plate. The upper corners of the cross-wing feature short straight braces, and the rear wing has long straight braces in the lower corners of the first floor. The roof structure includes collar-and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-struts in the apex.

The front elevation has 20th-century casements throughout. The main range includes two 2-light windows on the ground floor and two gabled dormers with 2-light windows. There is an archway adjacent to the cross-wing leading into the lobby, flanked by 20th-century doors. The single-storey wing at the right end has a 3-light window in the gable end and a glazed door on the left side. The gable end of the cross-wing features plank weathering between storeys, scalloped bargeboards, and 2-light windows on both the ground and first floors, along with an attic light. The main entrance is now located at the rear through an outshut.

Inside, the main beams are stop-chamfered. The ground floor of the cross-wing has painted inscriptions within a cable surround and Tudor rose decoration on the beams, although much of this has been erased. There is also 17th-century oak panelling on the first floor of the cross-wing.