Tiptofts Farmhouse
TIPTOFTS FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181848
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tiptofts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TIPTOFTS FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181848
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tiptofts Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIPTOFTS FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TIPTOFTS FARMHOUSE, WYVERSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Badwell Ash
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 01732 68339
Details
TM 06 NW BADWELL ASH WYVERSTONE ROAD (OFF)
5/15 Tiptofts Farmhouse
II
Former farmhouse, now in 2 occupations. Late C16; main range and cross-wing. Timber-framed; roughcast to cross-wing, old render with traces of comb pargetting to main range, and some replacement brick to ground floor; old plaintiles. 2 storeys; attics to cross-wing. c19 3-light casement windows with glazing-bars to the upper floor, and similar larger windows with transomes to the ground floor; plank door. The wing has a 2-light attic window, and a small gabled dormer in the outer roof-slope. C20 half-glazed entrance door to a small enclosed and gabled porch. Both ranges have internal chimney-stacks with high plain red brick shafts, that to the main range very narrow and set across the ridge of the roof. Interior of main range not examined, but it is long and unlikely to be all of one date. The cross-wing has a 2-cell lobby entrance form in 3 bays, including the chimney-bay. A newel stair beside the stack. Main beams only exposed in the ground-floor rooms, to the left of the stack with ovolo-moulding and cut-off stops, and to the right with chamfer and scroll stops. Attics now inaccessible.
Listing NGR: TM0173268339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281760
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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