Hill End Farmhouse With Adjoining Hop Kilns

WESTON BEGGARD CP WESTON BEGGARD LANE SO 54 SE 2/179 Hill End Farmhouse with adjoining hop kilns 20.10.52 (Formerly listed as Hill End Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. Dated 1601 with later C17 additions and further additions of C18 and C20; mid-C19 hop kilns. Coursed and dressed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, timber-framed slightly later addition with wattle- and-daub infill and sandstone plinth completely encased with render; sand- stone rubble C18 outbuilding now incorporated into body of house by C20 stone and brick additions and alterations, tiled roof. Earlier house, single room in depth with stair turret and porch, aligned north/south with slightly later timber-framed addition adjoining to north end, further additions to south-west obscuring former porch extend to adjoin with C18 building to north-west terminating in pair of mid-C19 circular hop kilns. South front: two storeys, attic and cellar, gable end of earlier building to right with raised verges and 3-light stone-mullioned window in gable, 4-light mullioned and transomed window below and 3-light mullioned window to cellar, stair turret to recessed right hand return with Tudor arched doorway and 2-light stone-mullioned windows to right hand return of turret. C20 addition to left with stone-mullioned windows echoing those of original house. Large stack with three diagonal-plan brick shafts. Interior reveals former porch to south-west with semi-circular-headed archway with imposts and moulded jambs, inner Tudor arched doorway, ovolo moulded ceiling beams throughout with fine cross-beamed ceiling with ovolo mouldings and elaborate stops to former first floor room, now sub-divided, moulded architraves to doorways, winder staircase in turret with polygonal-sided newel. Former outbuilding to north-west now forming part of kitchen on ground floor with interrupted tie-beam trusses and swept bracing to collar.

Listing NGR: SO5787141469