Hopkins Farmhouse

Hopkins Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 15th century or earlier, with some elements from around 1600. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a peg tile roof that is half-hipped and features gables at the west end, along with small gabled terminations at both the front and rear of the east end. The building has one storey with attics, though the east end has two low floors.

The front of the farmhouse includes an off-centre, open gabled porch with a peg tile roof from the 20th century and one gabled dormer. The rear roof slope also has two similar dormers. There is a stack with four octagonal shafts located off-centre on the ridge line. The windows are 20th-century casements with small panes.

This medium-sized farmer's open hall house is of the 'in line' type, featuring an inserted floor with stop-chamfered joists and a large stack from the late 16th century, which has a semi-circular inglenook in the hall. The inglenook includes a moulded timber mantel bead. The central posts and tiebeams are intact, showcasing heavy, flat chamfered arch braces and a simple soot-blackened crown post roof with thin straight bracing.

Around 1600, the low end of the farmhouse was rebuilt to two storeys, featuring unusual 'reversed assembly' gabled terminations and moulded corbels. One truss from this phase has a raised collar with arch braces. The west or high end bay was also widened during this time. Inside the west room, there is an elaborate late 18th-century corner cupboard with serpentine shelves, raised and fielded panel doors, and painted putti in the spandrels.