Tearnside Hall and Barns, Tearnside, near Kirkby L.onsdale. £600K
Tearnside Hall is pretty good value, for a historic prop. of this sort. It is very cute, though in reality larger than it appears in the photographs. Listed grade ii* and considered, therefore, almost complete with original features. I just wish Cumbria did not have so many more days of rain than East Yorkshire and such a comparatively low average temperature. I would love to furnish this house with furniture of this period, in oak, walnut, fruitwood, elm and ash, some carved, some plain, some with applied geometric mouldings. I’d take the horrid orange pine fitted cupboards out of the kitchen and have free standing country, vernacular furniture in there. Perhaps I would commission a dummy board or two in the form of young lambs, to go in front of the the fires.
Tearnside Hall is interesting to me, because the date stone is carved with 1686, which is the same as the date carved above my fireplace. My chimneypiece is made from the carved and turned oak altar rail from the church, the rest of the room being clad in paneling made from the deal box pews, installed by a Victorian. The date in the case of my property, therefore represents the date of the church, rather than the house, but here it is authentic. 1686 means William and Mary, two years before the Declaration of Rights and three before this Common Law document was enacted and enshrined as The Bill of Rights, along with the Coronation Oath Act, two of the most significant parts of the written part of our Constitution.
So all in all this house came into being round about the same time as the ancient rights and liberties of our people were enshrined in law, in the Kingdom, in perpetuity. I think if you lived in Tearnside Hall you would be compelled by the spirits of those who had inhabited the property before you to want to guarantee those freedoms and rights - trial by a Jury of your peers, no taxation without representation, no standing army, but most of all the right to one’s property.
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None of the rooms is huge, but one of the attic rooms is 22’ x 19’
Date stone above the door.
Unusually there is a Youtube Video for this property, sadly taken on a rather gloomy winter’s day and with a naff minimalist piano sound track, just think of the Purcell they could have used, I Attempt From Love’s Sickness to Fly, or Music For A While, or even the funeral anthems to go with the gloom, but I suppose a musically knowledgeable estate agent is more than one can reasonably expect. One thing the video reveals which is not shown on the photographs is the bathroom which has a semi circular bath raised on a stone dais. It is rather marvellous, and is joined by a deep purple loo and bidet, something I’ve not seen before and am not quite sure if I fancy. There is another smaller bathroom on the first floor, with white suite. The video gives a much better sense of the extent of the accommodation than the photographs. But the photographs are much better lit and show up the wonderful period features, the panelling, amazing fireplaces, beams, mullioned windows etc.
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