Tan Office Farmhouse

Tan Office Farmhouse is a late 16th-century building that was originally a farmhouse and later became a unit house associated with the adjacent farmhouse, which is located corner-to-corner with it. It is now a separate dwelling. The farmhouse has a timber frame that is rendered, with a plain tiled roof. Originally designed as a two-cell, end chimney house with a cross-entry, the service cell to the right is now missing. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring small-paned casement windows and a gabled porch with a boarded door, all from the 1970s. The stack at the left gable end has a plain shaft. Inside, there is good quality exposed framing, and evidence of original windows, including two secondary upper windows with ovolo mullions. The service partition at the gable end shows signs of central doorways into former service rooms. The hall ceiling has closely spaced chamfered joists, while the upper ceilings have plain joists. The roof structure includes a single row of wind-braced clasped purlins. The building underwent restoration between 1976 and 1980.