The Tiled House

The Tiled House is a house dating back to the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. It is timber-framed and now rendered, with pantiled roofs. Originally two separate houses, they have been combined into a single dwelling. The house is two storeys high with attics and has an L-shaped layout.

The older part of the house, running east to west and formerly known as 'Tiled Cottage', features several 20th-century casement windows and rear entrance doors. It contains an internal chimney stack with a plain rendered rectangular shaft. To the left of the stack are two bays of a former open hall, with a smoke-blackened roof. A crown-post remains within the open truss, exhibiting a slender octagonal shaft with moulded detailing at the cap and base. It was originally braced in four ways at the head, but the braces to the collar have been removed. A cambered tie-beam with long arched braces is also still in place. Shutter slides and remains of hall window mullions are visible on the upper floor. The inserted chimney-stack has a plain cambered timber lintel above it, and at ceiling level, a beam with shallow moulding, possibly a dais beam, is present. Adjacent to the stack, within the hall partition, is a doorway with a fine, heavy moulded ogee arch. While seemingly original, its style doesn't quite match the rest of the interior and may be a reused feature. The ceiling of the hall has a main beam with a 3-inch chamfer and triangle stops, with small solid supporting braces that are hollow-chamfered. The joists are plain. The remains of a stair trap are also present. Towards the west end of the house, there’s evidence of a cross-entry with a blocked doorway containing a shallow four-centred arch and plain spandrels in the front wall; evidence suggests another at the rear, but the house doesn’t appear to extend further west.

To the east of the stack, a break in the frame and a change of style indicate that the parlour is a 16th-century replacement or addition to the older house. The north-south range was originally set corner-to-corner with the older range in a unit-house relationship, but they are now linked by the 16th-century parlour extension. A hipped roof and a small stair wing have been added on the east side. This section also features an internal chimney stack, with a plain, rebuilt red brick shaft. Dormers with sloping roofs and rendered cheeks are present, along with 2-light casement windows. The remainder of the front features 2-light and 3-light old casements with a single bar to each light. A small, enclosed, gabled entrance porch is also present. The frame is in five bays. The stack contains two back-to-back hearths with plain timber lintels. On the north side, two bays retain a main beam supported by small solid braces and heavy, unchamfered joists. Housings for a three-light diamond-mullioned window can be seen in the end wall. The joinery includes edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. The roof is in eight bays, including two hipped end bays, and features two rows of stepped butt purlins.