Hop pickers’ huts at Rock Farm

Hop pickers’ huts, built between 1885 and 1895, are constructed from dark stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick dressings and corrugated iron roofs. The huts comprise two L-shaped, single-storey blocks that form a courtyard open to the south, positioned on the north-east side of the farmstead. Internally, the blocks are divided into individual huts, each featuring a single doorway and window. The huts have gabled corrugated iron roofs supported by timber purlins, and ventilation holes are present in the gable ends of the brickwork. Each hut originally had a timber-framed window and a wooden-boarded door with red-brick jambs, though double doors have been added to one hut. Some of the huts feature stable-type doors, allowing light and ventilation while providing a lower section that can be closed. Water closets, with lower gabled roofs, were added later at the south end of each block. Internally, the walls are whitewashed, with some possibly painted. Most of the huts measure approximately 3 metres long by 2.5 metres wide, while those at the corner of each block are 4.5 metres long by 3.5 metres wide.