Tilekiln Farm House

Tilekiln Farm House is a late medieval farmhouse that was originally an open hall house, with the northern wing dating from the 16th century. The hall was floored over and the house underwent alterations in the early 17th century, with renovations taking place in the 1980s. The structure features a timber frame on a brick sill and is roughcast, with red brick casing on the south front, west gable, and west side of the northern wing. The eastern elevation is roughcast with plain margins.

This T-shaped, one-and-a-half-storey house is located on the west side of a farm courtyard and faces south. The southern range contains a two-bay hall that shows signs of smoke blackening on the roof, indicating its original use. There is evidence of twin service doors at the eastern end, with a stair entrance at the northern end of the same partition, and a rear door leading into the 16th-century northern wing, which has been shortened at its northern end. The southern front features four gabled dormers at the eaves and three three-light casement windows on the ground floor. The entrance is now located in the upper bay of the hall. The eastern side of the northern wing has two gabled dormers and a 17th-century chimney with back-to-back fireplaces at the junction of the two wings. The northern wing serves as a kitchen and service room, while the parlour in the western bay of the southern range has been largely rebuilt. A new stair was added in the northwest angle during the 1980s.

Inside, the farmhouse boasts an unusually large original hall with a smoke-blackened clasped-purlin roof, heavy square-section curved braces supporting the tie-beams, and an edge-halved scarf joint in the wallplate. The western end of the hall features a close-studded partition with a very heavy tie-beam. The first floor of the northern wing also has close studding and includes a five-light diamond mullioned window in the eastern wall.