SEVENTY FOURTH LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST COMPILED UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971 TQ 7444 MARDEN HIGH STREET (south-east end) 5/78 Marden Farm Shop (formerly listed as The Old Market 23.5.67 House) GV II Court house, probably also with market function, now shop. Probably C16, with late C17 or early C18 and C19 alterations. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with exposed corner posts. Plain tile roof. Virtually square building of 2 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to Howland Road on an island site at the end of the High Street. Single storey, on stone plinth. Pyramidal roof. Eight- pane shop window with thin glazing bars to present front elevation (to Howland Road), and two six-pane windows to right side. Half- glazed door to right side of front elevation. Interior: exposed framing. Short shaped jowls to principal posts. Dragon ties to corners. Clasped-purlin roof. Each rafter has mortice at same height towards apex. Curved arch-braces to left side wall and part of gable ends. Right side wall-plate and short return along each gable end morticed for continuous row of diamond mullions; some mullions remain in situ, apparently terminating at midrail. Road island site. Court Leet said to have been held here until C19. Listing NGR: TQ7469844492