Description

BARKING DARMSDEN TM 05 SE

2/38 Tarston Hall -

- II

Former farmhouse. Early C17 with a probably C16 service range to rear. 2 storeys with attics and 1 storey with attics. Timber-framed and plastered with extensive restored C18 cable-pattern pargetting. Plaintiled roofs with axial and external chimneys of red brick. Small-pane casements and sashes mainly of C20. Boarded C20 entrance door. The C17 range has complete unmoulded timber-framing fully exposed. Some diamond-mullioned windows, now internal. A stairwing has a newel staircase rising through 3 storeys. Clasped-purlin roof. The earlier single-storey range has unchamfered flat joists and a large open lintelled fireplace. A chimney is scratch-dated 1791, the probable approximate date of 2 corner cupboards and other alterations. The house stands adjacent to a complete mediaeval moat, no doubt that surrounding the earlier house of the manor of Tarston.

Listing NGR: TM0818851936

External Links

• Wikidata Q26525283

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey