Hippins

This is a 17th-century house, initially dated 1650, built of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The house was originally constructed as a three-room through-passage plan, with a rear kitchen wing set at a right angle, creating a 'T' shaped layout. It is two storeys high. A plinth and continuous string course run along the building, with the ground floor windows stopping just above the string course. The windows to the west of the through-passage are double-chamfered mullioned, while those to the east of the passage, towards the service end, are chamfered mullioned, with latticed glazing in all. The parlour window is a five-light design with a six-light window above; the housebody window is a six-light design with a king mullion and a six-light window above, to the first floor. There is a two-light window to the side of the doorway. The doorway itself has an inscribed ogee lintel, a chamfered surround, and decorative label stops on either side, with a two-light window above it on the first floor. The service end has two windows of two lights, with a four-light window set between them above to the first floor. The left-hand return wall displays a coped gable with kneelers and a stack. The rear elevation features a depressed Tudor arched doorway with a chamfered surround, sheltered by a porch with a lean-to roof attached to the rear wing. The wing projects forward and has a coped gable with kneelers; a two-light chamfered mullioned window is present, above which is a single four-light window to the first floor. The right-hand return wall has a broad coped gable with an altered roof pitch to the north. Baluster finials adorn the kneelers, and a lantern finial tops the apex. There are three stacks along the ridge. Inside, the housebody shows scarf jointed spine beams and evidence of a former bressumer. A dividing wall between the parlour is constructed of single stones which splay outwards to support the ceiling beams and the first-floor wall, which is double-skin. The staircase includes finely turned balusters and newels, taken from Flat Head Farm, Ripponden. This is considered the finest 17th-century yeoman farmhouse in the parish, and is noted to be of group value in this context.