The Hop Barn And The Old Barn

The Hop Barn and The Old Barn is a pair of houses that were originally a barn, granary, and stables, with the left section possibly used as an oast house. The right section dates from the mid 17th century, while the left section is likely from the 18th century. The buildings were converted into houses around 1980.

The front of the ground floor features coursed ragstone for the lower two-thirds, which may be older than the rest of the structure and lacks a straight joint. The upper third of the ground floor is made of red and grey brick in Flemish bond on the right section, and later red and grey brick in English bond on the left section. The first floor is timber framed, covered with tarred weatherboarding at the front and rendered on the left gable end. The roof is covered with plain tiles, with the right section having three timber-framed bays. The building is two storeys high, with a half-hipped roof on the left and a gabled roof on the right.

The windows are regularly spaced, featuring eight small two-light casements—three on the right and five on the left. There are five small recessed ground-floor casements with segmental heads within the brick section; two are on the right and three on the left. Towards the left end of the stone section, there are three boarded openings with brick dressings. A boarded door leads into The Hop Barn at the left gable end, and there is a rear door to The Old Barn on the right.

At the back, there is a shallow two-storey addition to the left, made of red and grey brick in English bond on the ground floor and weatherboarded above, topped with a lean-to plain-tile roof. There is also a rear lean-to to the right of center.

Inside the right section, the principal posts are gunstock-jowled. There are mortices for a first-floor diamond mullion window and tension braces at the former left gable end. The rear wall of the former left end bay is close-studded on the first floor, and the rear wall of the central bay has tension braces. The cross beams on the ground floor are of relatively heavy scantling, with chamfered axial beams that are tenoned in. The roof was not inspected.