Hopper's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House.
Hopper's Hall
- WRENN ID
- old-tower-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hopper's Hall, Watton Road, Datchworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 269 182
- Coordinates
- 51.84825, -0.15796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hopper's Hall is a house dating from around 1640, with some minor additions and alterations. It features a timber frame on a brick base and is rendered, topped by a steeply pitched tiled roof. The building has a large three-cell lobby entry, complete with a porch and stair wings, and stands two storeys high with attics.
The original entrance porch, located to the right of the centre, has a raised six-panelled door set within an architrave, topped by a small bracketed hood. Above the door, on the first floor, is a two-light small pane moulded flush frame casement. The porch has a hipped roof. The remaining windows on the front are six-light mullion and transom small pane moulded flush frame casements, all beneath a continuous eaves cornice.
At the rear, there is a full-height gabled stair wing behind the entrance bay, and a later 17th-century gabled wing that projects from the left or service bay. These two sections are connected by a one-storey flat-roofed addition from the 20th century. The rear also features scattered small pane flush frame casements and a two-light gabled dormer. A low gabled bakehouse addition extends from the left end of the building.
Inside, the hall retains exposed framing with close studding and tension braces, as well as ogee stop-chamfered axial bearers and a fireplace lintel. An early 18th-century open well stair showcases turned balusters and a moulded ramped handrail.
Local climate
Hopper's Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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