Hoptons Almshouses, Hopton Gardens

SOUTHWARK

TQ3180 HOPTON STREET 636-1/1/446 (East side) 02/03/50 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive) Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens (Formerly Listed as: HOPTON STREET (East side) Hopton's Almshouses)

GV II*

Almshouses. 1746-9, partly rebuilt and modernised C20. Built by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson, trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder. MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; tiled roofs with overhanging eaves, hipped at ends; some roofs renewed. PLAN: 2 linked blocks, forming the northern range of originally 28 almshouses, grouped around 3 sides of a garden. Western end of range, originally Nos 1-3, is a C-shaped block, rebuilt after war damage, now adapted as 6 dwellings; linked by a brick arch to a range, originally of 4 (now Nos 7-9); all buildings modernised and re-opened 1988. 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: TQ3183080362