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The historic house of Tidmarsh is our home and we run our antique business from the Longbarn which is part of the same property. Over the course of nealy 150 years, Tidmarsh has been an Inn, a Police Barracks, business premises, flats and a home.
Thanks to careful restoration and conservation by the previous owners Tidmarsh now looks as it did in the 1860's. After many years of neglect, damage and considerable alteration intensive work began to restore Tidmarsh from the year 2000 until we purchased the property in 2008. We have been able to enjoy the wonderful work that had been done, and make the house into our comfortable, very beautiful own piece of history. Early History During the Gold Rush of the 1850s, this was a busy path, filled with bullock drays, coaches and private buggies and horses.Ryrie street featured an extensive array of wooden shops and small houses of split logs, bark and brick. Patrick Goulding's land was on the corner of Ryrie and Duncan Street, the latter being the access to the village centre, a prominent position visible from the main street. "Tidmarsh" was completed soon after 1856 as an Inn, with seven guest bedrooms, a dining room, bar and tap room, housekeeper's office, a detached kitchen, wash house and substantial stabling. Built of local granite fieldstone, the building was built by Irish stone masons, and is identical in construction to early C19th provincial buildings in Ireland. The quality of workmanship is high, and the building appears to have taken around two years to complete. The stone walls were built firs, on low rubble footings, then the interior walls of brick were added and finally the shingle roof, lath and plaster ceilings and partitions, and the fine broad planked pitch pine flooring. A completion date of around 1859 is likely as several details, including the wide, short floorboards, are identical to details in the Commercial Hotel, also completed that year.
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