The Poplars

The Poplars is a house that dates back to the late 15th or early 16th century, with significant rebuilding in the early 17th century, possibly marked by a date plaque from 1612 that is now covered. The building has undergone extensive alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features some internal timber-framing, roughcast sandstone walling, and a Welsh slate roof.

The house is two storeys tall with five windows on the first floor. The entrance front has a part-glazed door in the left bay, accompanied by a sash window to its left and a casement window above. The other bays display irregular fenestration from the 19th and 20th centuries, including a small window opposite the ridge stack, which may be a remnant of a fire window. The first bay has an external end stack on the left, higher eaves, and a hipped roof. The main range includes a rendered end stack on the right and a rendered ridge stack.

On the left side, there is a large external stack on the right with offsets and a rebuilt brick shaft, along with a smaller external stack of a later date on the left. Inside, the main range has a chamfered spine beam that is now incomplete. The central stack features back-to-back fireplaces, one of which has an early ashlar surround with shaped panels above the lintel. The roof space contains five collared principal-rafter trusses, double purlins, and evidence of a former firehood louvre on the north side of the ridge stack. The taller end bay is structurally a two-bay cross-wing, with massive slab ceiling joists on a morticed beam.

In the first-floor front room, there is an exposed cambered tie beam with the head of one wall post visible. A side wall stud partition separates the end bay from the main range, and a Tudor-arched fireplace backs onto the external stack. Wall posts are said to remain in some corners of this bay.