Select a tile that looks like hone limestone.

Post about Limestone

These colors in your floor look nice. I like @deegw 's suggestions and concur that because it is a small space, get something with few variations.

I like the look of limestone especially in your home, but think any nooks and crannies can get dirty easily in an entryway.

Old Tudors often had checkered tile in the entryway. I would look for something unique that tells your guests that your house is an oldie-but-goodie.

Doing the wood floor in a herringbone pattern at the entryway can also look pretty.

I like black slate it works in my head for Tudor

If you want to lighten it but stay traditional limestone or travertine look porcelain set on the diagonal with a pencil border of slate or dark tumble marble and square set of the same porcelain tiles. Like a stone rug with border, maybe with a design of the darker marble in center.

Love what you have.

Love your Tudor revival--such character! You could get a special tile for such a small area and it wouldn't break the budget.

Antique terra cotta:

Handmade/handpainted tiles by Tabarka are unique. so many to choose from, here are just a couple:

Black and white is classic, this one's from Wayfair:

Or a black and white mosaic:

You have unfading purple, red and green Vermont slate. Most other slate comes only in black or gray. I don't believe there are mines anywhere else in the world that have an unfading red and it is not all that prevalent in the Vermont mines - which is why it is generally used as an accent and not an entire floor.

I have the same flooring in my foyer. It was 50 years old and needed to be cleaned and the grouting repaired and restored to white.

It is a rare, expensive and durable floor. I would give it some TLC before just replacing.

This is a before and after cleaning the slate and repairing and recoloring the grout.

Good point about not tearing something out but trying to restore it, Jennifer. But if you're tired of something and want a change, there's also nothing wrong with that.

Love the examples of tiles from Diana.

Thanks, Red! My favorite would be the hexagonal terra cotta.

Love Diana’s suggestions as well!

debra

Looks fine the way it is. Do not go with dark slate. If it were me, I would remove and use wood and put heavy clear coat - never liked tile. If I liked tile, I would leave what you have. You need a rug there anyway to catch incoming dirt on shoes, so the floor would not be visible anyway. Love what I can see of the house.

Natural slate is timeless and will always look good. That's part of the reason it was chosen in the first place. No need to spend 7K on ripping that all out to put in new natural stone.