Hunters

TL 9879-9979 HOPTON THELNETHAM ROAD

3/54 Hunters (formerly listed 14.7.55 as Church Farmhouse)

GV II

Former farmhouse. Early C17. 2 storeys and attics; 2-cell lobby-entrance plan; 3 bays. Timber-framed and plastered, with simple comb-pargetting in panels; thatched roof. Internal chimney-stack with a plain red brick shaft. Various 3-light casement windows, some C20; an early C19 2-light window over the door, with transom and pointed Gothic heads to lights. 6-panelled central door, with sunk panels; late C20 replaced surround in Georgian style with triangular pediment. The interior has exposed timbering: widely-spaced studs; main ceiling-beams with ovolo-mouldings and stops, to the east of the stack with joists set flat, to the west with joists set on edge; large open fireplaces: to the east of the stack with a wide shallow red brick arch, and to the west with an ovolo-moulded lintel. Original attic floor with windows in the gable ends: roof in 5 bays, with clasped purlins and windbraces from principal rafters to purlins. A C19 single-storey brick lean-to with pantiled roof all along rear. On the west side of the house, a 2-storey addition built in 1947 replaces an older timber-framed section, and is not included in the listing.

Listing NGR: TL9947179005