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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655051

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House