Cloptons

Cloptons is a house built in 1643, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame, plastered exterior, red brick, and a roof made of peg and clay tiles. The building has a long L-shaped plan, consisting of a principal range and a lean-to, and stands two storeys high with an attic.

On the south elevation, the original front has four windows arranged in uneven bays. There is a large stack at the eastern end with four 'concertina' shafts above an ovolo moulded brickwork cornice, and a smaller ridge stack at the western end. All windows on the property are 20th-century three-light casements with glazing bars, with six panes by four panes on the ground floor and six panes by three panes on the first floor. The roof features three gabled dormer windows, each with casements of four panes by three panes.

The north elevation includes a 19th-century red brick lean-to with a catslide roof at the western end. To the east, there is a 20th-century French window that serves as a porch, topped with a lean-to peg-tiled roof. A long 20th-century conservatory extends to the northeast at the eastern end, with two casement windows positioned below the eaves of the house.

On the western end elevation, the principal gable end is bricked, with 17th-century work on the ground floor and 18th and 19th-century additions above. A 19th-century apex stack features a central fillet. The lean-to on the north side has rendered framing with lower brickwork and a doorway, which includes a 20th-century door with six fielded panels, and fixed paned casement windows on each side. There is also a 20th-century brick open-sided porch with a gabled roof.

The eastern end elevation retains original barge-boards and a flying collar on projecting horns, with the boards displaying a divided date of 16 - 43. A three-canted bay window extends through both storeys, supported by a plastered corbel below, with a 20th-century casement window arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted to have a large ground floor timber lintelled fireplace on the western side and a small brick-arched fireplace on the eastern side. The building is characterized as a large three-celled lobby-entrance house, with a parlour, hall, and service room arranged from east to west. The service end may have been heated from the beginning, likely serving as a kitchen.