# Tyes Place > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tyes_Place > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tyes_Place.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyes_Place > Source revision: 1128884993 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Staplefield) | area = [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex) | built = 17th century | built_for = | architect = | architecture = [Timber framed](/source/Timber_framing) | designation1 = Grade II | designation1_offname = Tyes Place | designation1_date = 11 May 1983 | designation1_number = {{Listed building England|1025731}} }} '''Tyes Place''' is a [listed](/source/Listed_building) historic manor house in [Staplefield](/source/Staplefield), [West Sussex](/source/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](/source/Roof_tiles) as per the local Sussex vernacular. It has [casement window](/source/casement_window)s downstairs, and original [sash window](/source/sash_window)s upstairs. The roof is tiled, and has two [dormer window](/source/dormer_window)s. The dining room fireplace has a [Tudor](/source/Tudor_architecture) arch and "carved arabesque frieze".{{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](/source/Inigo_Jones) (died 1652)|group=nb}} ==History== This [manor house](/source/manor_house) was constructed as a [timber frame](/source/Timber_framing) building by the seventeenth century or earlier, and remodelled in the eighteenth.{{NHLE|desc=Tyes Place|num=1025731|accessdate=20 July 2020}} The L-shaped building is to the east of the [village green](/source/village_green). The east wing was built around a medieval [hall](/source/Hall_house) 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](/source/George_Washington), in 1588.{{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}} The house has been listed as [Grade II](/source/Grade_II_listed) by [English Heritage](/source/English_Heritage) since 11 May 1983. [[File:Bridge House Sussex.JPG|thumb|right|Bridge House, [Cuckfield](/source/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,{{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}} which was broken up in 1839 after the mansion was taken down.{{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}} Miss Frances Grainger (d. [Sulhamstead](/source/Sulhamstead) 1918) was born at Tyes Place around 1834.{{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}} She was the daughter of Tyes Place residents Thomas Bannerman Grainger (d. before 1895) and his wife Frances "Fanny" Grainger (d.1839).{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} In 1877 the residents at Tyes Place were G.C. Boutcher and his wife.{{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}} Another former resident of Tyes Place was Jerome Dennison, an [Orkney](/source/Orkney) man, who died there in 1880.{{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}} Qn 13 October 1892 the farmer of Tyes Place, Mr H. Maye, sold up his farm stock, as he was "declining farming".{{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}} Maye had "six powerful active [cart horses](/source/Draft_horse)" plus five [bay](/source/bay_(horse)) horses, about forty cattle and some pigs, a number of horse-drawn wagons, carts and [plough](/source/plough)s, besides other farming implements.{{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}} 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.{{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}} In 1902 there was a [haystack](/source/Hay) fire at Tyes Place, attended by the [fire brigade](/source/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom).{{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}} Twenty tons of hay was lost.{{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}} In 1903 the farmer was S.W. Edwards.{{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}} In 1904 some of the land associated with Tyes Place was sold for building purposes.{{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}} 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.{{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}} On 30 December 1905 the land attached to Tyes Place was still being used by the local [hunt](/source/Hunting_and_shooting_in_the_United_Kingdom), the Surrey Staghounds, headed by Captain McTaggart. On that day, they chased a female deer which they named Valentine from Moonhill Farm, [Ansty](/source/Ansty%2C_West_Sussex), and took her on Tyes' land.{{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}} 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".{{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}}{{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}} One Wednesday in 1911 it was noted by the ''Mid Sussex Times'' that the [Archbishop of Canterbury](/source/Randall_Davidson) motored from [Horsted Keynes](/source/Horsted_Keynes) with his wife to have tea with tenant Mrs Harry Trench at Tyes Place.{{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}} ===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](/source/Borneo). Stanley had been a brewer for Hammerton's, his father-in-law's company.{{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}} During [World War I](/source/World_War_I) they worked with [Haywards Heath Hospital](/source/Princess_Royal_Hospital%2C_Haywards_Heath) 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.{{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}} The couple were also benefactors to various church causes,{{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}} 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](/source/George_Bell_(bishop)) (Chichester), [Leslie Lang](/source/Leslie_Lang) (Woolwich) and Bishop Dagleish of the [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel](/source/United_Society_Partners_in_the_Gospel) (missionaries).|group=nb}} Powell's ashes were interred with the Elder Brethren of [All Hallows-by-the-Tower](/source/All_Hallows-by-the-Tower), London, at the behest of [Rev. P.T.B "Tubby" Clayton](/source/Tubby_Clayton), founder of [Toc H](/source/Toc_H), who had attended the funeral.{{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}} After the death in 1949 of Margaret Powell,{{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}} the house contents sale included "[Jacobean](/source/Jacobean_era), [Queen Anne](/source/Queen_Anne_style_furniture) and [Georgian](/source/Georgian_era) furniture ... [Persian carpet](/source/Persian_carpet)s ... [mink and beaver coats](/source/Fur_clothing) ... [and a] [Rolls-Royce](/source/Rolls-Royce_Limited) [limousine](/source/limousine)".{{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}} ===Tyes Place after the Powells=== When sold again in 1949 Tyes Place had become:
A charming old [Elizabethan](/source/Elizabethan_architecture) manor house, seven bedrooms, two dressing rooms, two bath rooms, three reception rooms and maids' sitting room, [domestic offices](/source/Kitchen). 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.{{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}}
A more recent resident of Tyes Place was Emily Violet Long (d.1960).{{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}} ==Notes== {{Reflist|group=nb}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Tyes Place}} {{Authority control}} Category:Houses completed in the 17th century Category:Grade II listed buildings in West Sussex --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tyes Place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyes_Place) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyes_Place?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.