Hope Cottage Hope Lodge

Hope Cottage and Hope Lodge are a pair of houses, originally a single timber-framed house, dating from the late 16th century. The building has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed with timber framing, plastered walls, and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles.

The main range of the building consists of four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack and an external stack on the right side. A parallel range extends to the rear, centrally located, with a long, single-storey range beyond. There are small, weatherboarded extensions, with felt roofs, in the rear left angle, one two-storey and one single-storey. Further 2-storey extensions to the rear of the right end (Hope Lodge) include a section with a slate roof.

The front of the building has two 18th or early 19th century sash windows of 12 lights on the ground floor, alongside a splayed bay of early 19th century sash windows with 4-8-4 lights, set below a full-length jetty. The first floor features two 18th or early 19th century sashes of 12 lights, and one of 16 lights. All the front windows contain crown glass. Two 19th-century gabled dormers are topped with horizontal sashes of 6+6 lights. The property has two early 19th century 6-panel doors, with the bottom panels flush and the others fielded, each with two stone steps. Hope Lodge has a 19th-century cast iron bootscraper. A pair of vehicle gates with paled tops provide access to the rear. The jetty has a moulded fascia and eaves cornice. At the rear of Hope Cottage, the first floor includes one 18th or early 19th century horizontal sash of 10+15 lights, one late 19th-century sash with marginal lights, and a splayed bay of early 19th century sashes, 8-12-8 lights, all with handmade glass. The long single-storey extension has two early 19th century sashes of 16 lights in its return. A rear extension of Hope Lodge has a 19th-century horizontal sash of 4+4 lights on its first floor.

The interiors of both houses have been extensively re-styled throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, with most beams boxed and the original timber frame largely concealed. Hope Cottage retains exposed jowled posts and one chamfered transverse beam, unstopped, along with some early floorboards. The parallel rear range contains a chamfered axial beam, unstopped, along with plain, horizontal section joists (some replaced). A pair of 19th-century half-glazed mahogany doors, with coloured glass marginal lights, separates the main range from the rear range. The original fireplaces include one white marble and one of grey marble, while Hope Lodge has an early 19th-century fireplace with a fluted surround and a late 19th-century cast iron grate in a Gothic Revival style. The roof has clasped purlins.