Tudor House

Tudor House is a timber-framed house dating to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The timber frame is mostly exposed, with plastering, and the roof is covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house comprises a two-bay hall facing southeast, with an axial stack from the 16th century situated in the right bay. A two-bay crosswing lies to the left, featuring a jettied front and a 16th-century external stack on the left. Another two-bay crosswing extends to the right, also with an underbuilt jetty and 16th-century external stack. A 16th-century stair tower is positioned behind the left bay of the hall and the left crosswing, with smaller 18th and 19th-century extensions to its left. A single-storey extension with a catslide roof is attached to the right of the right crosswing. The hall is single-storey with attics, while the remainder of the house is two storeys high.

On the ground floor, below the jetty of the left crosswing, is a late 16th-century bay window with five transomed lights, an ovolo-moulded design with a moulded brick plinth, and restored two-light windows on either side. Reproduction windows are also present. The first floor has two reproduction windows and two dormers with gabled fronts. All reproduction windows incorporate genuine 16th and 17th-century wrought iron casements. There is a 18th-century six-panel door. The main stack features three late 16th-century octagonal shafts with ornamental caps. The left stack has two similar shafts, and a Royal Exchange firemark is also present. Other windows on the sides and rear include 16th and 17th-century wrought iron casements. A rear window is an early 18th-century sash of twelve lights. The house exhibits jowled posts, heavy studding, and curved bracing trenched to the outside.

Inside the left crosswing, there’s a wide hearth with moulded jambs and a depressed arch of bare brick, dating to the late 16th century. A doorway at the head of the stair tower features a four-centred arch. A framed aperture, seemingly for a first-floor garderobe adjacent to the stack, is blocked and plastered over internally. The roof is a crownpost structure with axial bracing. In the right crosswing, a similar framed aperture, previously used for a garderobe, is plastered externally, with a panel of original patterned daub above. The interior reveals a rebated aperture for a door, on the inside. A first-floor hearth has a hollow-moulded depressed arch of bare brick. A cambered tiebeam with a wide arched brace, and a crownpost roof, with axial bracing, complete the crosswing's roof structure. The hall contains an inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam, plain horizontal joists (mostly plastered) and a chamfered tie beam with step stops, and a smoke-blackened crownpost roof.