Great Tilden Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, with subsequent alterations in the late 16th or early 17th century, the 18th century, and the mid-19th century. The left wing is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The ground floor of the central section is also red brick, in a stretcher bond pattern, while the first floor is pebbledashed with applied studding. The ground floor of the right return is weatherboarded, and the first floor is pebbledashed. The roof is tiled.

The central section originally comprised one timber-framed bay with mortices suggesting axial subdivision and potentially the storeyed right end bay of a former open hall. A single bay was added to the right in the late 16th or early 17th century and extended to the rear by approximately one bay in the late 17th or 18th century. A 19th-century wing was built to the left of the central section and the area between the two wings was infilled to the rear.

The farmhouse has two storeys. There is a bracketed jetty to the front of the central section. The left wing is gabled to the front, with higher eaves and a lower ridge compared to the main range. The main range roof is hipped to the right, with a hip returning to the rear. A brick ridge stack is located between the central section and the left wing. A projecting stack from the late 16th or early 17th century is situated on the front elevation, spanning the right end of the central section and the left end of the added right bay, and features a galleted stone base on a galleted stone plinth and three diagonally-set red and grey brick flues on a brick plinth. A red and grey brick bread oven in English bond was added to the right side of the stack, extending across the added right bay, with a first-floor structure built out and tile-hung, featuring a small front gable above it. The fenestration is irregular, with two windows: one recessed 16-pane sash with splayed painted voussoirs to the gable end of the left wing, and one three-light casement to the left of the stack. A ribbed door is located at the left end of the central section.

Inside, exposed framing is visible. Features include gunstock-jowled posts, tension braces, broadly-spaced close-studding, and mortices for diamond mullion windows in the central section. A four-centred-arched hollow-chamfered stone fireplace with shields to the spandrels is found on the ground floor of the added right bay, with a blocked stone fireplace on the first floor above. A plain brick fireplace is present on the front of the ground floor of the central section. The rear right bay contains a chamfered axial beam and joists, along with a brick and Bethersden marble flag floor. The roof was re-tiled in the 20th century.