Canon Frome Court

Canon Frome Court is a country house, dating to 1786, attributed to Anthony Keck for Richard Cope Hopton. It was built on the site of an earlier house and has undergone several subsequent additions and alterations, including a porch dated 1814 and a music room from 1914. Further alterations occurred in the 1950s when the house was converted into a school. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has a hipped slate roof.

The house is a double-pile design, with a central entrance and stairwell facing north, a former music room to the west, and additions to the former service wing to the east. It has three storeys, with a dentilled eaves cornice. The front elevation is arranged with 2:3:2 bays, featuring glazing-bar sash windows. The central three bays are set forward slightly, with a pediment above and a Venetian window on the first floor. A string course with Vitruvian scroll enrichment sits above a former portico, which had attached Tuscan columns and the date R C H 1786, although this is now obscured by the later porch of 1814. The south front is similar in appearance, but without the added porch.

Inside, the entrance hall features a double screen of scagliola columns with Corinthian capitals. The house formerly contained fine 17th-century overmantels, which were largely removed and sold during the 1950s, although one is believed to remain in the former billiard room. These overmantels were originally from the earlier house on the site. Canon Frome Court was historically the seat of the Hopton family, later acquired by Hereford County Council in 1957 and used as a school from 1954; it is now owned by a housing association.