NHER 40512 (Building record) - The Tuns

2004. No. 5 Pirnhow Street.
Flemish bond brick house about 1700, mid 18th century extension, 19th century service wing.
Main house two storeys and attic; gable stacks on parapetted gables. Symmetrical three bay façade with central hooded door. Interior has one room with large hearth with bressumer, and winding stair; separate room with fireplace and brick patterned floor. Main stairs now in extension. Original roof with two orders of butt purlins, collars altered. Service wing has cast iron range, copper and dairy arches.
Attached barn is late 17th century timber frame, weatherboarded, pantile roof. Three steads with small end steads corresponding to hips in roof. Central cart doors, reduced. Arch braced tiebeams frame midstrey; braces also from posts to wallplates. Sillbeams, with plinth only in north stead. Brick threshing floor. Roof with one order of staggered butt purlins, windbracing, collars and tiny collars in hips; similar to that of house.
Noted as rare survival for its date with unusual roof and details.
(S1), (S2) and (S3) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 25 June 2004.

September 2004. Listed.
(S4) states that the stair in the house is a 19th century alteration, and dates the barn slightly later than (S1), to 1700. It clarifies the description of the barn by saying that the small bays under the hips are in addition to the three steads; one is a stable which it takes to be contemporary. Listed as a rare survival of a farmstead of about 1700.
E. Rose (NLA), 6 November 2004.

Building noted only in passing from road February 2007. Recently restored, repointed etc. The door hood certainly is in the style of 1700 but many of the bricks have horizontal skintlings which occur from the 1760s onwards; however these may be replacements inserted in the restoration. The house bears a metal notice about private rights of way of the type usually found on public houses. This is confirmed by (S5) which shows it as The Tuns Public House.
E. Rose (NLA), 19 February 2007.