Tippings

Tippings is a house that was formerly a school with a master's lodging, founded in 1675 by Bartholomew Tipping for twelve boys. It was enlarged in 1728 by Thomas Delafield, the schoolmaster, and has undergone later alterations. The building is constructed of flint and brick, with the front rendered and colourwashed. It features a hipped tile roof and flanking brick chimneys. The house has two storeys and two bays, with tall paired barred wooden casements—three on the first floor and one on the ground floor to the right. There is a 20th-century five-light bow window to the left and a central 20th-century door with an old rectangular fanlight in a gabled porch with a four-centred arch. To the left, there is a flint and brick lean-to, and to the right, a rendered lean-to. The rear wall of the original front range has quoins and a first-floor band course made of narrow brick. The rear wing, which forms an L-plan, is dated TD 1728 on the tie beam and has a lean-to in the angle with the front wing. Inside, there is a large fireplace with a chamfered brick arch in the right room.