Description

TQ 7444 MARDEN HIGH STREET (north-east side)

5/66 Turnpike House (Formerly listed as 23.5.67 J A Castleton, Butcher, with the house attached)

GV II

House, formerly shop, now house. Late C15 or earlyCl6 with C16 and later alterations, restored in mid-to-late C20. Timber framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor with exposed framing and rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with two roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. Two-bay early-to-mid C16 rear wing to left, and C16 or C17 rear wing to right of three timber-framed bays. 2 storeys. Right and left end bays jettied to front. First floor close- studded. Solid-spandrel arch braces to flying wall-plate, and solid- spandrel bracket under central tie-beam. Steeply-pitched roof, hipped with gablet to left, gabled to right. Brick ridge stack to right end of left hall bay, and rear stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one three-light to each end bay and to right hall bay, and one two-light to left of stack. Blocked two-light window to right end. Blocked doorway to left end of left hall bay. Rear door towards centre. Rear wings to left and right. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded end-of-hall beams, that to left less detailed. Two blocked rectangular hollow-chamfered service doorways to left end of hall. Broad close-set joists to end bays. Moulded central truss posts with cambered tie-beam and moulded octagonal crown post. Rebated end-of- hall post. Cambered hollow-chamfered axial tie-beam with hollow- chamfered posts to left end bay, and similar posts with later tie- beams to right end,neither with crown posts. Plain crown posts with foot braces to left wing. Two late C16 or early C17 three-light ovolo- moulded mullion first-floor windows to rear of hall. Moulded axial beam to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplace. C17 newel-post to stairs behind stack.

Listing NGR: TQ7466344553

External Links

• Wikidata Q26655051

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)