Description

WIMBISH COLE END
1.
5222
Tiptofts
(formerly listed as
Tiptofts Manor House)
TL 53 NE 12/859 26.11.51

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2.
Remarkable C13-C14 timber-framed building with considerable alterations
and few external features of much interest but much of the original hall
remains and has some fine features. A water filled moat entirely surrounds
the house. The original building was an aisled hall with small flanking
wings projecting on the west and making the building half H shaped. In
the C16 the hall was divided up and the floor and great chimney stack were
inserted. In the C17-C18 the east front was entirely altered and the east
aisle of the hall altered by gabled wings extending to the east. The solar
wing was extended and another wing built out from the centre, so the front
has now 3 gabled wings of varying size. There were further alterations
in the C19 and additions to the rear, and circa 1910 all fronts, except
the rear, were faced in brick with some tile hanging in the gable of the
south wing, which had its upper storey underbuilt. The hall (37 x 19 ft
with a 4½ ft aisle) was of 3 unequal bays with the narrow screens bay at
the south end. In the early C19 the ceiling of the south half was removed
and the great timbers exposed, and the remaining original doorway from
the screens to the buttery wing uncovered. The timbers are remarkable,
and the quatrefoil columns with chamfered base and moulded capitals supporting
the south bay remain. The north bay columns are now hidden in the walls
but the hammerbeams with curved braces and cusped spandrels are exposed
and even charred in places. The king post roof is exposed and also the
whole of the great C16 chimney stack. The buttery wing has some old features
and is largely unused. The rest of the building is mostly C19 and later.
(RCHM 14).

Listing NGR: TL5696937393

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539818

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)