What we’re about
A monthly social night for board games at Britain’s most extraordinary home.
Book a table. Bring a game. Order food & snacks. And experience a gaming venue unlike any other.
This is a monthly board gaming group in a unique location. On or around the last Monday of the month. For all levels of talent and experience. Either to bring and host a game, or join a game looking for players.
We are a group of gaming enthusiasts who enjoy exploring new and favourite board games. Join us for our monthly meetup where we gather to socialise, strategise, and have fun. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or new to the hobby, everyone is welcome to come play, meet new friends, and escape into exciting adventures.
YOUR HOST
John Tarrow is an author, award-winning games master and creator of Britain’s most extraordinary home; Talliston House & Gardens.
THE VENUE
The meetings are held in a unique and amazing house and gardens. Talliston was a 25-year project that took the UK’s most ordinary house and transformed it, room by room, by ordinary people on an ordinary budget, into Britain’s Most Extraordinary Home.
Starting as a three-bedroomed, semi-detached, ex-council house in Essex, today not a single square centimetre of the original house remains. In its place is an extraordinary labyrinth of locations, each set in different times and places.
Talliston is a once ordinary house and gardens in Essex where its thirteen rooms have been transformed into extraordinary locations each set in a different time and place. Magnolia living rooms have been recreated as Welsh watchtowers. Garages as log cabins in the woods. Box-rooms as 1920s investigator offices. A former pink bedroom is now a dark and haunted Scottish chamber. Talliston – a name that means ‘the hidden place in the wood’ – in the medieval market town of Great Dunmow, just minutes from Stansted airport, is another world hiding on a perfectly normal street, inviting you to step inside and discover its secrets.
