Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens

SOUTHWARK

TQ3180 HOPTON STREET 636-1/1/448 (East side) 02/03/50 Nos.12-21 (Consecutive) Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HOPTON STREET (East side) Hopton's Almshouses)

GV II*

Almshouses. 1746-9, 1825, partly rebuilt C20. Built by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder; 2 extra houses added 1825, rebuilt after war damage; all buildings modernised and re-opened 1988. MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, hipped at ends; some roofs renewed. PLAN: 2 linked blocks, forming the southern range of originally 28 almshouses, grouped around 3 sides of a garden. Western end of this range is a C-shaped block (with the later 2 houses projecting at the south west corner), now adapted as 7 dwellings, linked by a brick arch to a range, orginally of 4 (now Nos 12-14). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays each; some doors now replaced with windows. Ground-floor openings with segmental, gauged red brick arches; sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals to both floors. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3183280330