Tudor House

TL 7714 TERLING CHURCH GREEN (south-east side)

11/120 Tudor House

GV II*

House. C16, altered in C16 and C19/C20. Timber framed, plastered with framing mainly exposed, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing SE with C16 axial stack in right bay. 2-bay crosswing to left, jettied at the front, with C16 external stack at left. 2-bay crosswing at right, with underbuilt jetty at the front, with C16 external stack at right. C16 stair tower behind left bay of hall and left crosswing. Small C18 and C19 extensions to left of it. Single-storey extension to right of right crosswing, with catslide roof. Hall of one storey with attics, remainder of 2 storeys. Ground floor, below jetty of left crosswing, late C16 bay window of 5 transomed lights, all ovolo-moulded, with moulded brick plinth, and restored 2-light windows to each side; 2 reproduction windows. First floor, 2 reproduction windows and 2 more in gabled dormers. All the reproduction windows incorporate genuine C16 and C17 wrought iron casements. C18 6-panel door. On main stack, 3 late C16 octagonal shafts with ornamental caps. On left stack, 2 similar shafts, and Royal Exchange firemark. Other windows at sides and rear incorporating C16 and C17 wrought iron casements. At rear, one early C18 sash of 12 lights. Jowled posts, heavy studding, curved bracing trenched to the outside. In left crosswing, wide hearth with moulded jambs and depressed arch of bare brick, late C16. Doorway at head of stair tower with 4-centred arch; framed aperture apparently for first-floor garderobe next to stack, blocked and plastered over internally. Crownpost roof with axial bracing. In right crosswing, similar framed aperture for garderobe, rebated for a door on the inside, plastered externally, with a panel of original patterned daub above. First-floor hearth with hollow-moulded depressed arch of bare brick. Cambered tiebeam with wide arched brace, and crownpost roof with axial bracing. In hall, inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of horizontal section, mainly plastered to the soffits, chamfered tiebeam with step stops, and smoke-blackened crownpost roof. RCHM 5.

Listing NGR: TL7732514872