Taylour House

Taylour House is a 15th-century timber-framed house that has been significantly altered over time. It now presents as a two-storey, two-window front. The building originally comprised two spans and has an old tiled roof, with a hipped section on the left side. A 17th-century chimney stack with three linked shafts rises from the ridge. The first floor is tile hung, while the ground floor is faced with painted brick, with a rendered plinth. Modern mullioned and transomed windows with diamond leading are set into the first floor. At the rear, sections of original timber framing are exposed and partly restored, with plaster filling in between. The interior reveals substantial timberwork, including moulded beams and old doors and frames. An upstairs room features two well-preserved painted walls from the early 17th century: one depicting scrolls of foliage, the other a scene of Judith and Holofernes, and bearing the arms of James I. A 17th-century staircase with flat, urn-shaped balusters is also present. The arms in the spandrel over the doorway represent Sir William Taylour, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1469 and is believed to have resided in this house.