Hopwells Farmhouse

Hopwells Farmhouse is a house with origins dating back to the 15th century, featuring a rear range that has undergone additions and alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries, along with later modifications. The front range, which may also date to the 16th century or earlier, was re-roofed around 1820. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a hipped grey slate roof on the front range and a red plain tiled roof on the rear range. It has projecting eaves supported by carved brackets from the late 16th or early 17th century and a central plastered chimney stack.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with a full-length open red tiled porch at the first-floor level featuring a central gable. The first floor has a four-window range of 18th and 19th-century small paned vertically sliding sashes, while the ground floor includes three 20th-century bay windows with casements. The rear range consists of four bays with heavy timber studding and displays 15th-century halved and bridled scarfs. The original first floor remains in the kitchen, with other floors inserted in the 16th or 17th century. A chimney stack was added around 1630, and the roof, constructed in the late 16th century, features a thin braced two-armed crown post design. An early 16th-century two-storey crosswing was also added.

Notable interior features include a fireplace and chimney stack from around 1550, a good staircase from circa 1620, several doors and windows from the late 16th century with ironmongery, wall paintings from around 1680 attributed to E.C. Rouse, and contemporary panelling.