Tanyard

This is a house, likely dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with additions from the late 16th or early 17th century and alterations from the 19th century. It was restored in the mid-to-late 20th century. The house is timber framed with rendered infilling, with a ground floor of former open hall constructed from red brick, and a rear addition built from uncoursed stone. The roof is covered in plain tiles. Originally an open hall of two bays of unequal length, built at a right angle to the road, a later range was added to the front gable end, running parallel to the road and extending to the right; this section now comprises two timber-framed bays (the right one being shorter), and was originally at least one bay longer. A timber-framed bay was added or rebuilt to the rear gable end of the hall around the same date, with a further bay set at a right angle to the left side. The front range is two storeys and a garret, built on a stone plinth and featuring close studding. It has a continuous jetty and a half-hipped roof. The eaves of the left gable end are jettied on solid-spandrel brackets. There is a multiple-filleted brick stack marking the junction between the main range and the former open hall. The fenestration is irregular with two slightly projecting mullioned and transomed oriel windows; one is a 14-light window to the left bay, and the other an 8-light window to the right bay, both with roll-moulded cills, and the left window has a moulded head and jambs. A boarded door is set in a moulded 4-centred arched architrave with leaf spears to the spandrels, at the right end. The rear range features broadly-spaced studding with tension braces on both sections, along with a rear gable-end jetty and a hipped roof, with a lower ridge to the bay set at a right angle. A 7-light mullioned frieze window is found on the right side of the hall. The interior features exposed framing, a moulded rear end-of-hall beam, and, in the front range, internally-visible tension braces, and chamfered and moulded beams and joists. There’s a stone fireplace on each floor of the left room. A close-studded partition separates the rooms, with a moulded 4-centred arched doorway and leaf spears to the spandrels in the ground floor room. A blocked doorway is located beside it, leading from the left room to a staircase in the right room, with an onion finial along the rear wall. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters in both ranges, with the front range featuring windbraces.