Hopkinson'S House

Hopkinson's House is a house with a core dating back to the 17th century, and additions and alterations from around 1700 and the mid-18th century, with a north wing refenestrated in the early 20th century. Part of the building was partially rebuilt around 1985. The west front was rebuilt for William Hopkinson. The building is constructed of orange brick in an irregular bond, partly rendered and with ashlar dressings, with rendered sandstone to the right return. The roofs are covered in blue slate, with stone slates to the north wing.

The west front, facing the road, was rebuilt with rusticated quoins and a first-floor band. Openings are topped with gauged brick flat arches featuring raised ashlar keystones. Doorways have been inserted between the first and second bays, and at the right end. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows, while the second floor has shorter windows; the rightmost window retains an unequally-hung 12-pane sash, the others being altered to casements. All windows have flush wood architraves and stone sills. There is a rendered stack to the left end, and a renewed brick ridge stack between the second and third bays.

At the rear, the south wing (on the right) has a doorway with a window above, and flat-arched windows on each floor to the left. A corner stack marks the junction with an infill section which contains a doorway with a monolithic lintel, a window above with a projecting stone sill, and a lean-to roof. The north wing has a large opening with an iron-girder lintel above a window. A stack is located at the junction with the main range. On the right return, rendering was removed around 1985 to reveal a bricked-up doorway with a wood lintel, likely inserted at an earlier date; there is a 20th-century brick lateral stack to the wing.

Inside the north wing is a single room with stop-chamfered oak spine beams and floor joists, and a king-post roof truss with single angle struts and mortices for braces (now replaced), two butt purlins, and oak rafters. Back-to-back fireplaces are between the central and right-hand rooms, the latter retaining stop-chamfered spine beams. A mid-to-late 17th-century open-well framed newel stair with a closed string is also present.