Tainter Mead

Tainter Mead is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century and an extension added in the mid-20th century. The building features a timber frame that is exposed, with red brick infill on the ground floor and plaster infill on the first floor, while the return elevations are covered with weatherboarding. It has a plain tiled roof and is likely to have originated as a hall house, with a 20th-century wing added to the rear.

The house stands two storeys tall with an attic, set on a sandstone base. It has a cluster of stacks at the left end and a rebuilt stack projecting at the right end. A large gable is located at the center left, supported by brackets and adorned with moulded bargeboards and a moulded pendant. The gable end of the rear wing oversails to the center right. The first floor features a small two-light mullioned window in the gable, along with a two-light mullioned window to the left. To the right, there are three three-light mullioned casements and a single light, while the ground floor has three three-light mullioned casements. All the mullions are ovolo moulded with fillets. The main entrance is through a boarded door located in the right return.

At the rear left, there is a small outhouse, likely from the 17th century, which has a massive sandstone base, a roughcast upper section, and a plain tiled roof. The original use of this outhouse is unknown.

Inside, the house has a fully framed structure with chamfered jowls on the main posts. The roof features Queen struts and clasped purlins with windbraces, probably dating from the 17th century, although it reuses soot-blackened rafters. The presence of cambered tie beams suggests that the roof may have an even earlier origin. The left end stack is situated in a small framed bay, which may have originally served as a cross passage bay, with a further framed bay to the left that is now missing, or it might have been a form of smoke bay at one end of the house. The chimney bresummer on the ground floor is inscribed with "WM fb 1695." Additionally, there is a framed addition to the rear that accommodates a newel staircase.