Tindale Tarn House
The Tindale Tarn House (also Tarn House ) is a Grade II * protected building on the south bank of the Tindale Tarn in Cumbria .
The Tindale Tarn House was first mentioned in 1485 and is referred to there as a newly built house. It was built for Humphrey, Lord Dacre, who belonged only to a local noble family, but this position required a suitably representative building. The building, with walls over one meter and sometimes up to two meters thick, was described as a peel tower . Such a fortified building was common in the Anglo-Scottish border region. In this case, it was not necessarily intended to be a residential building, but was more likely to be used for administrative purposes, such as monitoring the nearby mines. Its use in cheese production has been handed down from the 17th century. Because of the fortification of the structure, it could have been used as a storage place for cash or other assets.
The current appearance of the building, which is essentially a farm building, dates back to 1823 and 1843, when a new roof and windows were added, and essential parts of the tower and curtain wall were incorporated into the current building.
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- Tindale Tarn House on The Gatehouse
- Tarn House entry at Historic England
Coordinates: 54 ° 55 '9.7 " N , 2 ° 36' 58.8" W.