Tudor Mede

Tudor Mede is a cottage dating from the 15th century, featuring an open hall and an east crosswing. It has been renovated and extended. The building is timber framed, with plaster rendering and a reed thatch roof. The roof has a half hipped design at the west end of the hall and is hipped at the south end of the crosswing. There is a 17th-century inserted red brick stack. The layout consists of a two-bay open hall and a crosswing, with one storey and an attic in the hall, which includes a large modern dormer. The ground floor has similar casement windows. The current doorway leads to what may have been the former cross passage between the hall and the crosswing. The crosswing is two storeys high. Inside, the open hall features a central truss with hollow moulded arch bracing to the tie beam, which originally had a crown-post. The inserted chimney and floor date from the 17th century. The crosswing retains its original ceiling, with joists laid flat and unmoulded, except for the leaf-stopped main beam.