Tanners

Tanners is a pair of attached cottages that have been converted into one house. They date from the 18th century and were altered and extended in the 20th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It has five bays facing southwest and features a central stack. There are rear lean-to extensions and a large crosswing extension to the left, which is connected to the main house by a narrower link added in 1986. The structure is one storey with attics, featuring four 20th-century casement windows and four additional casements in gabled dormers. The entrance has a plain boarded door set in a 20th-century timber framed and gabled porch. The roof is half-hipped with a gambrel design. Inside, there are two wood-burning hearths, and the thin studding with primary straight bracing is exposed. The thin joists have a vertical section, and internal partitions have been removed, leaving empty mortices without peg-holes. The building is shown on the First Edition 25-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1875 as an ancillary building of Tan Office, which was demolished before the Second Edition of 1895.