Description

WEM RURAL C.P. TILLEY SJ 52 NW 11/165 Tilley Manor - 28.10.60 GV II Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill, now mainly roughcast; painted sandstone plinth and plain tile roof. U-plan with 2-bay cross-wings flanking central hall range of baffle-entry type, which is continued for a single bay to right of right cross-wing. 2 storeys. Framing: exposed to gable of right cross-wing; square panels, 3½ from cill to wall-plate; attic jettied with moulded bressumer and 3 collars; raking struts between bressumer and lower collar, double-purlin ends. Gable of left cross-wing has herringbone struts above tie beam and supporting carved corner brackets below. Timber framed gable to centre of hall range with moulded bressumer and carved consoles. Late C19 and C20 casements with C19 bracketed hoods, one on each floor to cross-wings and to central gable. C19 four-panel door under contemporary bracketed gabled hood to left of hall range with roughcast axial ridge stack immediately to left. Cross-wings have integral lateral stacks, right with tall red brick shaft and left stone with internal roughcast shaft. Interior: twin chamfered spine beams and heavy joists with ogee stops in ground- floor room of hall range. Massive brick stack to hall range has sandstone inglenook fireplace with moulded wooden lintel to cross-wing side. Front room of this (left) cross-wing has C17 rectangular oak panelling with fluted frieze and flat cross-beam ceiling with ogee stops. Hall stack stepped to first floor. Exposed purlins and straight windbraces but roof trusses concealed by wallpaper at time of resurvey (March 1986).

Listing NGR: SJ5068327916

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