Tymperleys Clock Museum, Trinity Street, Colchester, Essex.
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greysman
N 51° 53.317 E 000° 53.927
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A triple stack of tudor brick on this C15th-C16th listed building, now a clock museum.
Waymark Code: WMD2FA
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/09/2011
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This is a grade II* listed building originally built at the end of the C15th and quite small being a single ground-floor room with a first floor open to the roof. An outside staircase allowed access. It stood in its own garden back from the road (Trinity Street) and faced south, it was reached through the archway in what is now No 7. It has been much restored and extended westwards and is now of two storeys with attics, timber-framed and plastered, with the timbering exposed on the front, the roofs tiled, five gabled dormers. The upper storey projects on the south front. An original doorway at the west end in the first floor with four centred head, now blocked, once led to the external stairway. The windows are mostly modern, the interior has original moulded ceiling beams and a C17th staircase. It was named Tymperleys after the house which stood to the east of which only part survives. A plaque over gateway of the surviving part, now No.7, Old Tymperleys, records it as the birthplace and residence of William Gilberd, Author of De Magnete and Founder of Electrical Science. B.1544-D.1603.
The chimney stack is a complex construction of tudor brick. It is three stacks built together. Each stack in plan is two interlocking squares set at 45°. The tops of the stacks project in layers and the whole arrangement is mounted on a rectangular gable stack.
The house was restored after being bought by Bernard Mason in 1956 who used it to house his collection of clocks. It was given to the people of Colchester in 1979, became Tymperleys Clock Museum, but recent financial restraints have forced the closure of the museum and its possible sale.
A metal and glass extension has recently been built attached to the west end of the original house and is being used as a coffee shop.
Private or Public Property?: Not currently known
What material is it made from?: Brick.
Estimated Height of chimney (please include whether metres or feet): 2.5m
Type of building e.g. house, hotel etc: House.
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When was it made?: Not listed
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