Tarston Hall

Tarston Hall is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a likely 16th-century service range at the rear. The building has two storeys with attics and an additional single storey with attics. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with extensive restored 18th-century cable-pattern pargetting. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have axial and external chimneys made of red brick. Most of the windows are small-pane casements and sashes, primarily from the 20th century, and there is a boarded entrance door from the same period.

The 17th-century section of the house has fully exposed, unmoulded timber-framing and includes some diamond-mullioned windows that are now located internally. A stairwing features a newel staircase that rises through three storeys, and the roof is of clasped-purlin construction. The earlier single-storey range has unchamfered flat joists and a large open lintelled fireplace. A chimney has been scratch-dated to 1791, which likely corresponds to the approximate date of two corner cupboards and other alterations. The house is situated next to a complete medieval moat, which likely surrounded the earlier manor house of Tarston.