Description

TARLETON PLOX BROW
SD 42 SE
4/60 No.17 (Mayo Farmhouse)
11.10.1968
GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1635 on porch (1685 when 1st listed); altered. White
painted render on handmade brick, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan
with addition to rear of 2nd and 3rd bays. Two storeys; single storey
gabled porch, in line with ridge chimney at junction of 1st and 2nd bays,
has slightly-arched outer doorway with panelled raised lettering on the
lintel, the lettering now worn and almost illegible: ( ) 1635 R ( ),
inner board door with strap hinges and pegged wooden doorcase; to left, 1st
bay is set back (continued eaves overhanging here); 3 windows on each
floor, all large modern alterations. Right-hand gable wall has a
partly-blocked 6-light mullioned window at 1st floor, with a label. Rear
altered. Interior: 1st and 2nd bays have back-to-back inglenook
fireplaces, that in the 2nd bay with cyma-stopped chamfered bressummer, 2
similarly decorated beams tenoned into it; formerly 2 doorways to 3rd bay,
one now blocked; partition between 2nd and 3rd bays timber framed with
wattle-and-daub panels (concealed).

Listing NGR: SD4545120792

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26282690

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper