Tanners Farmhouse

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TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE

5/242 Tanners Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, once used as a vicarage. Early/mid C17, possibly earlier origins, reorganised and refurbished in the late C19. Timber-framed, ground floor level is underbuilt with C19 brick and front wall is attractive Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers, chamfered plinth and cogged brick cornice, sandstone footings are exposed on the south end; framing above first floor level is clad with red tile, front has a regular pattern of rectangular and scallop-shaped tile and in the south gable end similar tiles used in a diaper pattern; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with a good C17 staggered chimneyshaft at the south end; peg-tile roof.

Plan and Development: 2-room plan house facing west. Through passage with main stair between the rooms. Kitchen in lean-to outshot behind larger right (southern) room. Both rooms have gable-end stacks and kitchen stack backs onto the main block. This layout is the result of the late C19 reorganisation. Before that the main block was one room larger, extending further to right (south). This missing room was the parlour. The present right room was the kitchen which included the present passage and the left end room was an unheated service room. This C17 house may have had a lobby entrance plan with stairs behind the stack. The chimneyshaft still has 4 flues from the C17 back-to-back fireplaces.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and late C19 lean-to outshots to rear of the right room.

Exterior: Not quite symmetrical late C19 3-window front of attractive casements containing iron glazing bars with a pattern of hexagonal panes. The ground floor windows have low segmental brick arches over. Front doorway is a little left of centre up a couple of concrete steps. It contains a late C19 panelled door under a gabled hood.

Interior: The late C19 modernisation was apparently superficial and although much of the fabric is hidden behind late C19 plaster it is thought to survive largely intact. The left ground floor room has a plain chamfered crossbeam with plain joists. The fireplace is C19, inserted into the C17 service room. The right room, the C17 kitchen, has a chamfered axial beam with bar scroll stops and extends across the late C19 stair and passage. The C17 kitchen fireplace is blocked but its large size is evident from its exposed oak lintel with Tudor arch head. On the first floor are plain chamfered axial beams. Roof is carried on collared tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins and queen struts.

Tanners Farmhouse is a most attractive house and one of a group of listed buildings in the vicinity of the Church of St Thomas A Becket (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6382444536

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