Tyes Place

This manor house was constructed as a timber frame building by the seventeenth century or earlier, and remodelled in the eighteenth. The L-shaped building is to the east of the village green. The east wing was built around a medieval hall with an extra floor inserted in the sixteenth century, believed to have been done by William Butler. His daughter, Margaret, married Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of George Washington, in 1588. The house has been listed as Grade II by English Heritage since 11 May 1983. which was broken up in 1839 after the mansion was taken down. Miss Frances Grainger (d. Sulhamstead 1918) was born at Tyes Place around 1834. She was the daughter of Tyes Place residents…

Tyes Place is essentially a timber-framed structure which was given a new front in the 18th century. The ground floor at the front is of red brick and grey headers, and the upper floor at the front is tile-hung as per the local Sussex vernacular. It has casement windows downstairs, and original sash windows upstairs. The roof is tiled, and has two dormer windows. The dining room fireplace has a Tudor arch and "carved arabesque frieze".