Tilekiln Farm House

WESTON FRIENDS GREEN TL 22 NE 5/112 Tilekiln Farm House 3.4.75 GV II

Farmhouse. Late medieval former open hall house, N wing C16, hall floored over and house altered early C17, renovated 1980s. Timber frame on brick sill, roughcast. Red brick casing to S front and W gable, and W side of N wing. E elevation roughcast with plain margins. A T-shaped, 1 1/2-storeys house on W side of farm courtyard facing S. S range has a 2-bays hall with smoke blackening of roof, evidence for twin service doors to E end with stair entrance at N end of same partition, and rear door leading into C16 N wing which has been shortened at N end. S front has 4 gabled dormers at the eaves and 3 3-lights casement windows to ground floor. Entrance now into upper bay of hall. 2 gabled dormers to E side of N wing and C17 chimney with back-to-back fireplaces at junction of the 2 wings. N wing a kitchen and service room. Parlour in W bay of S range largely rebuilt. New stair in NW angle in 1980s. Interior has unusually large original hall with smoke blackened clasped-purlin roof, heavy square-section curved braces to tie-beams, edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate, close-studded partition at W end of hall with very heavy tie-beam. Close studding in 1st floor of N wing and 5-light diamond mullioned window in E wall.

Listing NGR: TL2586128125