Tudor House

Tudor House, located in Chislet Forstal, is a 17th-century hall-house of Wealden form, dating back to around 1440. It features a chimney and ceiling over the open hall that were added around 1500, along with porches and a bay that were added in 1637. The building is timber-framed with plaster infilling, and the end window bays on the first floor extend out over the protruding ends of the floor joists, supported by brackets and curved braces. The recessed center has curved braces that support the overhanging eaves. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, covered with tiles, and has a 16th-century link chimneystack.

There are three casement windows, and the center portion includes a two-storey bay added in 1637, featuring decorative black and white scrollwork and the date on the first floor, while the ground floor has been rebuilt in modern red brick. To the south, there is a red brick porch, also from 1637, with a round-headed archway and a shaped Dutch gable. Each end wall has a chimney breast, and behind the porch is the original wooden door surround with blank spandrels.

Inside, the house contains two inglenook fireplaces and an original stone fireplace with blank spandrels, upright posts with jowls, an embattled beam from the former open hall, one square crown post from circa 1440, an octagonal moulded crown post from a later date, smoke-blackened rafters, original doors, and some panelling in an upstairs room. Tudor House is listed as Grade II* due to its status as a good example of a Wealden hall-house with exceptional interior features.