Tipton

Tipton is a pair of attached houses that have been converted into one house, dating from the early to mid 17th century. The building was partly remodeled in the mid 19th century and extended in the early and late 20th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and features a rag slate roof with gable ends. A stone rubble chimney stack is located on the left-hand gable end, with axial and right-hand end stacks that have reused early 17th-century granite moulded caps on later shafts. There is also a third similar stack in the rear projecting wing on the right.

The original layout may have consisted of two houses, each with a two-room and cross passage plan, or alternatively, it could have been one larger house that was significantly remodeled. The conversion into a single house involved the removal of partitions, and a wing was added to the rear on the right in 1907, as indicated by a datestone, along with a further wing added to the rear left in the late 20th century.

The building has two storeys and a 2:2-window front. The right-hand cottage is set forward, and the masonry in the left-hand cottage has been partially rebuilt, with the right-hand side set slightly forward. The left-hand cottage features an asymmetrical two-window front with 6-pane sash windows on both floors and a 20th-century door. There is a single-light window opening from the 17th century in the left-hand gable end, with ashlar stone chamfered jambs, cill, and lintel, each having straight cut stops. The right-hand cottage has a regular two-window front with brick segmental arches and 6-pane sash windows on both floors, along with a part-glazed 20th-century door.

Inside, the left-hand range retains a complete set of early to mid 17th-century ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stops embedded in the wall. There is a 20th-century fireplace on the left-hand gable end, and evidence of a blocked fireplace on the right-hand side. The first floor features a corbelled granite fireplace from the early to mid 17th century, with a chamfered lintel and jambs that have eroded stops. The right-hand range includes a large fireplace on the right-hand gable end with an unmoulded timber lintel and a cloam oven. The first-floor fireplace may have a reset chamfered timber lintel with scroll stops. The roof timbers in the left-hand range were replaced in the late 20th century, while the roof timbers in the right-hand range have not been inspected.