Pope'S Farmhouse And Pope'S Flat

Pope's Farmhouse and Pope's Flat is a farmhouse with an attached flat, dating from the early 16th century, with a 17th-century addition and early 19th-century rebuilding. The building is constructed of rendered rubble stone and features a tiled hipped roof, with brick and ashlar stacks. It has an L-shaped plan, with a through passage to the left of the original 16th-century structure and a later addition at right angles.

The south front is two stories high with four windows, featuring sash windows. The central door is four-panelled and is set within a 20th-century glazed porch, flanked by 20th-century bays. The first floor has four 16-pane sash windows. The left side of the building has a rendered external stack with offsets to the gable, and to the left is the original 16th-century structure with a large, now-truncated ashlar lateral stack. There is a 20th-century door and plastic-framed casements to the left, and at the extreme left, a moulded stone Tudor-arched doorway leads to the through passage.

At the rear of the 16th-century range, there are 2-light casements inserted into 2-light round-arched mullioned windows. The through passage to the right has chamfered stone jambs at the entry. The rear of the later range features 20th-century casements and a gabled extension. Attached to the left of the medieval range is a farm building with inserted 20th-century garage doors at the rear.

Inside the 16th-century range, there is a blocked fireplace and a blocked arched window with a splayed opening and raked sill on the south gable, which is now an internal wall between this range and the later addition. The 17th-century range has an open fireplace with a timber lintel on stone jambs, while the rest of the fittings are from the 19th century, including stairs with stick balusters and four-panelled doors. Despite recent renovations, the original layout can still be discerned, which likely consisted of a hall, probably open to the roof, with a lateral stack and a through passage at the lower end, and a single light at the upper end. A cross range was likely added to the south in the 17th century when the hall window was blocked.