Hop Green Farmhouse

House. Built in the early 17th century, it was altered in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and renovated around 1975. The house is timber framed, with plaster infill, and has a roof of handmade red plain tiles. It originally had four bays facing southwest, with a central chimney stack located in the second bay from the left, creating a lobby entrance. There’s also a single-story service wing to the rear of the right end, featuring an internal chimney stack, which has been rebuilt in the 20th century. A single-storey lean-to extension is located at the rear left angle. To the right of the main range sits an ancillary building constructed in the early 19th century using flint and brick rubble, with a hipped roof. Upper floors each have two early 19th-century sash windows with 10+10 panes of glass, and one with 8+8 panes (window frames were replaced around 1975). A six-panel front door, with the top two panels glazed, is set within a moulded doorcase. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The parlour, at the left end, features a chamfered binding beam with lamb’s tongue stops, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue and roll stops, and a wide wood-burning hearth with a cranked mantel beam with plain stops, and jambs of 0.33 brickwork. The room to the right of the stack has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and an 18th/early 19th-century pine fire surround which was moved from the parlour around 1975. The roof over the right end is now fully plastered. A straight staircase from the early 19th century is located to the rear of the middle room, and at the top there's a turned newel, an oval-section hardwood handrail and stick balusters. A single jowled post is visible. Early floorboards remain on the first floor. Upper rooms contain two early 19th-century cast iron ducknest grates. The roof level was raised approximately 0.40 metres and rebuilt in the early 19th century, reusing some smoke-blackened medieval rafters. The rear wing has exposed plain, square-sectioned joists, jointed to the axial beam with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, and a butt-purlin roof. A tithe award from 1841 shows the house was then associated with a 87-acre farm. Various repairs were reported as taking place in 1788 and 1807, but these dates are no longer visible. According to the owner, ground sills, footings, and parts of the timber frame were renewed around 1975.