Tylers Farmhouse

TL 50 NW NORTH WEALD BASSETT HIGH ROAD 5/43 Tylers Farmhouse

GV II

Hall house, early C16, altered in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Hall block of 2 storeys, early C17, aligned approximately NE-SW,aspect SE. 2 crosswings, C16, jet tied at front. 3 C19 chimney stacks, in middle of hall block and in middle of each crosswing. Small 2 storey extension to side of SW crossing, C20. Flat roofed single storey extension to rear of NE crosswing, C20. 2 storeys. Door with 2 lights, C19, 3 C19 casement windows on ground floor, 3 on first floor. Some framing exposed internally. On ground floor all or most of visible framing is C20 or re-sited old timber. On first floor, generally original. In SW crosswing, arched braces rising from posts to wallplates and tiebeams inside studs, not trenched. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in NE wallplate. Queen strut roof with curved wind bracing to clasped purlins. In NE crosswing, unglazed window in NE wall, blocked. Curved tension bracing, trenched inside studs (in front elevation, terminating on studs, 'Suffolk bracing'). Queen strut roof with curved wind bracing to clasped purlins. This house began as a true medieval hall house, with 2 crosswings slightly different in construction and therefore in date, the NE being the earlier, but both built within the C16. In the early C17 the hall was rebuilt as a 2 storey hall block, re-using sooted roof components from the earlier hall, with roof of clasped purlin construction. In the early C19 it was converted to 3 cottages, each with a central chimney stack, and later recombined into one house.

Listing NGR: TL5067605031