Listed Building: TIPTOFTS FARMHOUSE (281760)

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