Tannington Lodge

TANNINGTON TM 26 NE 6/65 Tannington Lodge - II Farmhouse. C17 with later additions and alterations. A 3-cell main range, facing south, with a return front facing west formed by an extension to the parlour cell; to the east is a service range, almost corner-to-corner with the main house and extending to the north. Timber framed and plastered with a plaintiled roof. The west front has ashlar-lined plasterwork and a hipped roof. Service wing has red brick gable ends and a pantiled roof. 2 storeys. South front has 2 windows, C19 3-light casements; to the right is a smaller window set half-way between floors. All windows have wooden hoodmoulds. Lobby entrance: late C19 gabled porch with moulded depressed 4-centred arch, 6-panel raised and fielded door (upper 2 panels glazed), glazed head to arch with Y-tracery. Internal stack. Symmetrical 3-bay west front, the centre bay set slightly forward. Late C19 2-light casement windows with a single slender horizontal glazing bar to each light; wooden hoodmoulds. Stuccoed porch: embattled parapet with polygonal corner turrets rising above; moulded depressed 4-centred arch. Similar turrets once adorned the main part-of this facade. Service range has various windows (one still slatted), a boarded half-door and gable stack. Victorianised interior, nearly all the structure concealed. Roof over hall and service end of main range has 2 rows of stepped butt purlins, and is probably of c.1700; a few sooted medieval timbers have been re-used. Service range has an C18 frame with straight primary braces; there is a solid-tread stair. Surrounding medieval moat.

Listing NGR: TM2536667689