Hopping Farmhouse

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SY 09 SE NEWTON POPPLEFORD SOUTHERTON AND HARPFORD 4/79 Hopping Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. C17, possibly earlier core; one end rebuilt in early C19 and the rest modernised at the same time. The older part is plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob or stone rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. The early C19 section is plastered brick, the stack is brick and the roof slate. The house faces south and has a 3-room and through-passage plan with the inner room at the right (eastern) end. The inner room has an end stack and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the inner room. The service end room was rebuilt in the early C19 higher than the rest and with a large axial stack between the main room and a small end store or dairy. A winder stair turret projects to rear near the upper end of the hall. In the C19 a corridor was created along the rear of the hall and at the same time outshots were built (or rebuilt) along the back. Overall 6-window front. The 4-window front of the lower and older part comprise probably C18 casements. They are 3 lights except a 2-light window over the door and contain rectangular panes of old leaded glass. Only the ground floor right window has a replacement casement with glazing bars. The first floor windows here have low thatch eyebrows over. There are sloping buttresses between the windows and another at the right end. The front passage doorway contains a late C19 4-panel door with the top panels glazed. The 2-window section to left, the rebuilt section, contains C19 casements with glazing bars under low segmental arches. The roof is gable-ended to right and the slate section higher than the thatch and hipped at the end. Interior is largely the result of the early C19 modernisation although this seems to have been mostly superficial in the passage, hall and inner room. In the hall the crossbeam is C17; it is soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. The crossbeam in the inner room is boxed in. Both hall and inner room fireplaces are blocked by good C19 grates with marble chimneypieces. The C19 service end room has a large brick kitchen fireplace and a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with runout stops. The roofspace is inaccessible but the feet of the principals suggest that the lower roof is made up of C17 A-frame trusses. Hopping is a good C17 farmhouse, improved in the early C19 and not modernised since. Considerable care should be exercised in future modernisations since it is quite likely that C17 or even earlier features would be uncovered.

Listing NGR: SY0785790573

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