{{short description|Manor house in Sussex, England}} {{Use British English|date=March 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Tyes Place | image = Folly in the grounds of Tyes Place - geograph.org.uk - 244453.jpg | image_size = | caption = Folly in the grounds of Tyes Place | locmapin = West Sussex | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|51.03766|-0.16723|type:landmark_region:GB|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | gbgridref = TQ 28603 28071 | location = Staplefield | area = West Sussex | built = 17th century | built_for = | architect = | architecture = Timber framed | designation1 = Grade II | designation1_offname = Tyes Place | designation1_date = 11 May 1983 | designation1_number = {{Listed building England|1025731}} }} '''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.
==Structure== 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.<ref name="NHLE"/> The dining room fireplace has a Tudor arch and "carved arabesque frieze".<ref name="Salzman (1840)" />{{refn|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)|group=nb}}
==History== This manor house was constructed as a timber frame building by the seventeenth century or earlier, and remodelled in the eighteenth.<ref Name=NHLE>{{NHLE|desc=Tyes Place|num=1025731|accessdate=20 July 2020}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Salzman (1840)" >{{cite book |title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes |date=1840 |publisher=Victoria County History|editor=L.F. Salzman |location=London |pages=147–163 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp147-163 |access-date=22 March 2021 |chapter=Parishes: Cuckfield}}</ref> The house has been listed as Grade II by English Heritage since 11 May 1983.<ref name="NHLE"/>
[[File:Bridge House Sussex.JPG|thumb|right|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,<ref>{{cite news |title=Sussex: valuable freehold and copyhold estates |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000082/18300501/001/0001 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Morning Chronicle |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=1 May 1830 |page=1 col.3}}</ref> which was broken up in 1839 after the mansion was taken down.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sussex: the Bridge House Estate |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000938/18390815/014/0001 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Brighton Gazette |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=15 August 1839 |page=1 col.2}}</ref> Miss Frances Grainger (d. Sulhamstead 1918) was born at Tyes Place around 1834.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funerals |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19180521/145/0008 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=21 May 1918 |page=8 col.6}}</ref> She was the daughter of Tyes Place residents Thomas Bannerman Grainger (d. before 1895) and his wife Frances "Fanny" Grainger (d.1839).<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000654/18990610/051/0004 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=10 June 1899 |page=4 col.3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18950503/003/0001 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Morning Post |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=3 May 1895 |page=1 col.1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Miss Agnes Grainger |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19190318/107/0008 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=18 March 1919 |page=8 col.4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000031/18390731/005/0003 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=31 July 1839 |page=3 col.1}}</ref> In 1877 the residents at Tyes Place were G.C. Boutcher and his wife.<ref>{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18770430/003/0001 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=London Evening Standard |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=30 April 1877 |page=1 col.1}}</ref> Another former resident of Tyes Place was Jerome Dennison, an Orkney man, who died there in 1880.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001923/18800117/048/0006 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=West Sussex County Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=17 January 1880 |page=6 col.5}}</ref> Qn 13 October 1892 the farmer of Tyes Place, Mr H. Maye, sold up his farm stock, as he was "declining farming".<ref>{{cite news |title=Tyes Place Farm |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000654/18920917/088/0003 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=17 September 1892 |page=3 col.6}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tyes Place Farm |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000654/18921008/269/0012 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=8 October 1892 |page=12 col.4}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sad affair at Staplefield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/18951231/025/0001 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=31 December 1895 |page=1 col.7}}</ref>
In 1902 there was a haystack fire at Tyes Place, attended by the fire brigade.<ref>{{cite news |title=The fire at Staplefield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19021216/191/0008 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=16 December 1902 |page=8 col.4}}</ref> Twenty tons of hay was lost.<ref>{{cite news |title=Staplefield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19021209/152/0008 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=9 December 1902 |page=8 col.1}}</ref> In 1903 the farmer was S.W. Edwards.<ref>{{cite news |title=Staplefield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000655/19030328/104/0005 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |issue=28 March 1903 |page=5 col.2}}</ref> In 1904 some of the land associated with Tyes Place was sold for building purposes.<ref>{{cite news |title=By order of trustees: Staplefield, Cuckfield, Sussex |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000655/19040917/072/0004 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=17 September 1904 |page=4 col.1}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=An emaciated cow's journey, Haywards Heath |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19040705/093/0005 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=5 July 1904 |page=5 col.6}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ansty: the Surrey Staghounds |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19060102/110/0004 |access-date=23 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=2 January 1906 |page=4 col.6}}</ref> 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 {{convert|123|acre|ha|abbr=on}} of nicely-timbered park-like grassland".<ref>{{cite news |title=Freehold property at Staplefield |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19041004/139/0008 |access-date=22 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=4 October 1904 |page=8 col.5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Staplefield: at Tyes Place |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19070312/122/0005 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=12 March 1907 |page=5 col.6}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=An archiepiscopal visit |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19111010/121/0007 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=10 October 1911 |page=7 col.2}}</ref>
===Margaret and Stanley Powell=== thumb|right|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.<ref name="Mid Sussex Times 3 December 1940" /> Stanley had been a brewer for Hammerton's, his father-in-law's company.<ref>{{cite news |title=This week's wills and bequests |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002017/19440122/068/0007 |access-date=23 March 2021 |work=Eastbourne Herald |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=22 January 1944 |page=7 col.4}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Mid Sussex Times 3 December 1940" >{{cite news |title=Fifty years of happy married life |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19401203/009/0001 |access-date=22 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=3 December 1940 |page=21 col.4–5}}</ref> The couple were also benefactors to various church causes,<ref>{{cite news |title=A generous benefactor |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000656/19431112/084/0003 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=12 November 1943 |page=3 col.6}}</ref> 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.{{refn|The three bishops were: George Bell (Chichester), Leslie Lang (Woolwich) and Bishop Dagleish of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (missionaries).|group=nb}} 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of Stanley L. Powell: three bishops at Haywards Heath |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001598/19431117/054/0003 |access-date=23 March 2021 |work=Mid Sussex Times |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=17 November 1943 |page=3 col.5}}</ref> After the death in 1949 of Margaret Powell,<ref>{{cite news |title=Staplefield, death of Mrs Powell |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002166/19490210/082/0003 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=West Sussex Gazette |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=10 February 1949 |page=3 col.7}}</ref> the house contents sale included "Jacobean, Queen Anne and Georgian furniture ... Persian carpets ... mink and beaver coats ... [and a] Rolls-Royce limousine".<ref>{{cite news |title=Sale, Thursday and Friday next |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000656/19490415/058/0002 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Sussex Agricultural Express |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=15 April 1949 |page=2 col.9}}</ref>
===Tyes Place after the Powells=== When sold again in 1949 Tyes Place had become:<ref name="W Sussex Gazette 31 March 1949" /> <blockquote>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 {{convert|2.5|acre|ha|abbr=on}} in all.<ref name="W Sussex Gazette 31 March 1949" >{{cite news |title=Bradley & Vaughan |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002166/19490331/208/0005 |access-date=22 March 2021 |work=West Sussex Gazette |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=31 March 1949 |page=5 col.4}}</ref></blockquote> A more recent resident of Tyes Place was Emily Violet Long (d.1960).<ref>{{cite news |title=Liverpool bequests |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19600115/535/0020 |access-date=24 March 2021 |work=Liverpool Echo |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=15 January 1960 |page=20 col.1}}</ref>
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Category:Houses completed in the 17th century Category:Grade II listed buildings in West Sussex