Tibbiwell House With Attached Workshop

Tibbiwell House with attached workshop is a large house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with modifications in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is situated at the end of a row in Painswick. The construction is limestone ashlar with a stone slate roof. The building is compact, with a cross-gabled design and a lower two-storey wing.

The street facade is two storeys with an attic and a partial cellar, presenting a twin-gabled appearance. The ground floor features two single-light 19th-century casements on the left side and two 20th-century plastic sashes on the right side, all beneath a continuous string course. The first floor has three 3-light recessed chamfer-mullioned casements, each with a stopped hood, and similar 2-light casements in each gable. The gables are coped, and an ashlar stack with a skirt and bold moulded capping is located on the right side. A central Doric portico with a triglyph frieze and pediment frames a four-panel fielded door set within an archway. An offset plinth is present, along with a cellar opening on the left. The return facade to the left has a 3-light window at ground floor, and 2-light windows to the first and second floors, all recessed chamfer-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. The rear elevation displays two large external stepped stacks to coped gables and a lower two-storey wing with a hipped roof. It has 1- and 2-light casements, one pair flanking a former door with a fanlight; in the internal angle is a 20th-century glazed door.

Inside, there is a series of good stone fire surrounds created by members of the Bryan family of masons. The dining room contains a surround with a raised segmental mould and rococo floral swag frieze, and a mantel shelf. A room to the left of the entrance has a plain surround with egg and dart mould to the architrave and mantel. A first-floor fireplace on the right is attributed to John Bryan’s grandson and features a decorative stone head and dart mould to the eared architrave. A first-floor fireplace on the left has a square surround with large decorative frieze drapes, an ornamental egg and dart mould. The staircase is a tight dog-leg with a mahogany handrail to stick balusters in the lower flights, transitioning to square newels and fretted splat balusters in the upper flight leading to the attics. Numerous 18th-century panelled doors are set within moulded architraves. Several stopped chamfer beams are also present and the roof timbers appear to be original.

Attached to the rear via a stone wall containing a decorative arch is a workshop/studio, said to have been John Bryan's workshop. This two-storey structure is of rubble construction with a slate roof. The side facing the house has two windows at each floor, a 2-light window to the ground floor and a 3-light window above featuring simple stone-mullioned casements. The outer face contains a large 20th-century garage door. The interior retains a large bressummer fire opening.