Claim: Gainsborough Old Hall was built from 1471–1484 and it has Tudor architectural style, which features lavish use of half-timber work, large groups of rectangular windows, complex roofs with many gables, and much brickwork, frequently in patterns.
Evidence: 1471–1484 Tudor It is principally a timber framed building, giving it its characteristic 'striped' or 'black and white' appearance. Today, the Hall with its elaborate timber roof survives as well as the kitchen—possibly the most complete medieval kitchen in England. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture, "Tudor" has become a designation for half-timbered buildings, although the truth is there are cruck and frame houses with half timbering that predate 1485 by quite a bit and the style bleeds early into the Jacobean era and a closer examination is required to determine the edifice's age. Large displays of glass in very large windows several feet long; glass was expensive so only the rich could afford numerous large windows Hammerbeam roofs still in use for great halls from Medieval period under Henry VII until 1603; were built more decoratively, often with geometric-patterned beams and corbels carved into beasts Curvilinear gables, an influence taken from Dutch designs, from the mid-century Brickwork in homes of gentry, especially Elizabethan. As with upper classes, conformed to a set size of 210–250 mm (8.3–9.8 in) × 100–120 mm (3.9–4.7 in) × 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in), bonded by mortar with a high lime content