Description

WEM RURAL C.P. TILLEY
SJ 52 NW
11/165 Tilley Manor
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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530045

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)