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Tyes Place

Tyes Place is a listed historic manor house in Staplefield, West Sussex, England. It was once a farm, then in the first half of the 20th century it was owned by local benefactors Margaret and Stanley Powell, who in 1918 used the building as a rest house for clergy. It is now a private residence.

Tyes Place
Folly in the grounds of Tyes Place
LocationStaplefield
Coordinates51°02′16″N 0°10′02″W / 51.03766°N 0.16723°W / 51.03766; -0.16723
OS grid referenceTQ 28603 28071
AreaWest Sussex
Built17th century
Architectural style(s)Timber framed
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameTyes Place
Designated11 May 1983
Reference no.1025731
Tyes Place is located in West Sussex
Tyes Place
Location of Tyes Place in West Sussex

Structure edit

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.[1] The dining room fireplace has a Tudor arch and "carved arabesque frieze".[2][nb 1]

History edit

This manor house was constructed as a timber frame building by the seventeenth century or earlier, and remodelled in the eighteenth.[1] 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.[2] The house has been listed as Grade II by English Heritage since 11 May 1983.[1]

 
Bridge House, Cuckfield. Tyes Place was part of its estate until 1839

Tyes Place, which had been a freehold manor farm, was once (along with Dorcas and Rowland farms) part of the Bridge House Estate,[3] which was broken up in 1839 after the mansion was taken down.[4] Miss Frances Grainger (d. Sulhamstead 1918) was born at Tyes Place around 1834.[5] She was the daughter of Tyes Place residents Thomas Bannerman Grainger (d. before 1895) and his wife Frances "Fanny" Grainger (d.1839).[6][7][8][9] In 1877 the residents at Tyes Place were G.C. Boutcher and his wife.[10] Another former resident of Tyes Place was Jerome Dennison, an Orkney man, who died there in 1880.[11] Qn 13 October 1892 the farmer of Tyes Place, Mr H. Maye, sold up his farm stock, as he was "declining farming".[12] Maye had "six powerful active cart horses" plus five bay horses, about forty cattle and some pigs, a number of horse-drawn wagons, carts and ploughs, besides other farming implements.[13] In 1895 the resident of Tyes Place was R.C. Gardner, who was reported as a possible suicide by the Mid Sussex Times, he having apparently shot himself.[14]

In 1902 there was a haystack fire at Tyes Place, attended by the fire brigade.[15] Twenty tons of hay was lost.[16] In 1903 the farmer was S.W. Edwards.[17] In 1904 some of the land associated with Tyes Place was sold for building purposes.[18] in 1904 the farmer was Thomas Pavey, who was summonsed for cruelty to a severely emaciated cow, which he caused to be driven five miles.[19] On 30 December 1905 the land attached to Tyes Place was still being used by the local hunt, the Surrey Staghounds, headed by Captain McTaggart. On that day, they chased a female deer which they named Valentine from Moonhill Farm, Ansty, and took her on Tyes' land.[20] In a sale report of 1907 for farmer Scott Pitcher, Tyes Place is described as an "old-fashioned residence", with "four cottages, two sets of farm buildings, gardens, orchard, and about 123 acres (50 ha) of nicely-timbered park-like grassland".[21][22] One Wednesday in 1911 it was noted by the Mid Sussex Times that the Archbishop of Canterbury motored from Horsted Keynes with his wife to have tea with tenant Mrs Harry Trench at Tyes Place.[23]

Margaret and Stanley Powell edit

 
Stanley Powell of Tyes Place, a local benefactor, 1943

By 1940 the house was described as a "reconditioned farmhouse", in the occupation of the elderly local benefactors Margaret and Stanley Powell, who had spent time in Borneo.[24] Stanley had been a brewer for Hammerton's, his father-in-law's company.[25] During World War I they worked with Haywards Heath Hospital assisting wounded soldiers, and a ward was subsequently named the Margaret Powell Ward. In their hands, in 1918, Tyes Place became a "rest house for London clergy, Community Sisters, shop girls, and in fact all sorts of people". They later reclaimed the house as their home.[24] The couple were also benefactors to various church causes,[26] and "devout churchman" Stanley Powell's funeral at St Luke's Chapel at the hospital attracted three bishops and nine priests, besides management and staff of the hospital.[nb 2] Powell's ashes were interred with the Elder Brethren of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London, at the behest of Rev. P.T.B "Tubby" Clayton, founder of Toc H, who had attended the funeral.[27] After the death in 1949 of Margaret Powell,[28] the house contents sale included "Jacobean, Queen Anne and Georgian furniture ... Persian carpets ... mink and beaver coats ... [and a] Rolls-Royce limousine".[29]

Tyes Place after the Powells edit

When sold again in 1949 Tyes Place had become:[30]

A charming old Elizabethan manor house, seven bedrooms, two dressing rooms, two bath rooms, three reception rooms and maids' sitting room, domestic offices. Garage. Matured lawns and gardens. Ornamental fish pond. Central heating. Electric light. Company's water. Just over 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) in all.[30]

A more recent resident of Tyes Place was Emily Violet Long (d.1960).[31]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Although Salzman calls the fireplace a "Tudor arch", and the house was begun in the 17th century, this style of fireplace continued to be designed in rural locations throughout the 17th century, e.g. by Inigo Jones (died 1652)
  2. ^ The three bishops were: George Bell (Chichester), Leslie Lang (Woolwich) and Bishop Dagleish of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (missionaries).

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Historic England. "Tyes Place (1025731)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b L.F. Salzman, ed. (1840). "Parishes: Cuckfield". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes. London: Victoria County History. pp. 147–163. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Sussex: valuable freehold and copyhold estates". Morning Chronicle. British Newspaper Archive. 1 May 1830. p. 1 col.3. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Sussex: the Bridge House Estate". Brighton Gazette. British Newspaper Archive. 15 August 1839. p. 1 col.2. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Funerals". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 21 May 1918. p. 8 col.6. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Deaths". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 10 June 1899. p. 4 col.3. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Deaths". Morning Post. British Newspaper Archive. 3 May 1895. p. 1 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Death of Miss Agnes Grainger". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 18 March 1919. p. 8 col.4. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Deaths". Aberdeen Press and Journal. British Newspaper Archive. 31 July 1839. p. 3 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Births". London Evening Standard. British Newspaper Archive. 30 April 1877. p. 1 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Deaths". West Sussex County Times. British Newspaper Archive. 17 January 1880. p. 6 col.5. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Tyes Place Farm". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 17 September 1892. p. 3 col.6. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  13. ^ "Tyes Place Farm". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 8 October 1892. p. 12 col.4. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Sad affair at Staplefield". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 31 December 1895. p. 1 col.7. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  15. ^ "The fire at Staplefield". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 16 December 1902. p. 8 col.4. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Staplefield". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 9 December 1902. p. 8 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Staplefield". Sussex Agricultural Express. No. 28 March 1903. British Newspaper Archive. p. 5 col.2. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  18. ^ "By order of trustees: Staplefield, Cuckfield, Sussex". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 17 September 1904. p. 4 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  19. ^ "An emaciated cow's journey, Haywards Heath". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 5 July 1904. p. 5 col.6. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  20. ^ "Ansty: the Surrey Staghounds". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 2 January 1906. p. 4 col.6. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  21. ^ "Freehold property at Staplefield". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 4 October 1904. p. 8 col.5. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  22. ^ "Staplefield: at Tyes Place". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 12 March 1907. p. 5 col.6. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  23. ^ "An archiepiscopal visit". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 10 October 1911. p. 7 col.2. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  24. ^ a b "Fifty years of happy married life". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 3 December 1940. p. 21 col.4–5. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  25. ^ "This week's wills and bequests". Eastbourne Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 22 January 1944. p. 7 col.4. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  26. ^ "A generous benefactor". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 12 November 1943. p. 3 col.6. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  27. ^ "Funeral of Stanley L. Powell: three bishops at Haywards Heath". Mid Sussex Times. British Newspaper Archive. 17 November 1943. p. 3 col.5. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  28. ^ "Staplefield, death of Mrs Powell". West Sussex Gazette. British Newspaper Archive. 10 February 1949. p. 3 col.7. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  29. ^ "Sale, Thursday and Friday next". Sussex Agricultural Express. British Newspaper Archive. 15 April 1949. p. 2 col.9. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  30. ^ a b "Bradley & Vaughan". West Sussex Gazette. British Newspaper Archive. 31 March 1949. p. 5 col.4. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  31. ^ "Liverpool bequests". Liverpool Echo. British Newspaper Archive. 15 January 1960. p. 20 col.1. Retrieved 24 March 2021.

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