Hilperton House

Hilperton House is a detached house dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century extension. It features a limestone ashlar front with chamfered quoins and rubble stone returns, topped by a hipped stone slate roof with stone stacks that have moulded cappings. The building is two storeys high with an attic and presents a five-window classical façade.

The central entrance consists of a 19th-century half-glazed door set within a bolection-moulded architrave, topped by a broken segmental pediment supported by consoles and featuring a heraldic shield. To the left of the door, the cellar has two 2-light mullioned casements. The ground floor has two 12-pane sash windows in bolection-moulded architraves flanking the door. A moulded lintel string course runs across the façade.

On the first floor, there are five sashes in bolection-moulded architraves, with the central window featuring a keystone. A moulded cornice leads to a parapet that sweeps up to the centre, adorned with a ball finial. The roof has three attic dormers: the central one is gabled, while the flanking dormers have pediments, all fitted with 20th-century casements.

The left return includes a 12-pane sash window within a 19th-century conservatory with arched lights, a 12-pane sash on the first floor with a bolection-moulded architrave, and a hipped attic dormer behind the parapet. The right return features a 19th-century stone canted bay, three first-floor sashes in bolection-moulded architraves, and a hipped attic dormer. An attached two-storey 19th-century wing on the right has 4-pane and 12-pane sashes in plain architraves, along with two half-dormers with 9-pane sashes.

At the rear, there is a 19th-century kitchen wing to the right and a courtyard that has been filled in with a flat-roofed extension. The left side has a 19th-century wing with pointed casements on the east side.

Inside, the main range retains 18th-century fittings, including an impressive open staircase leading to the attic, featuring two turned balusters per tread, a wide moulded and ramped handrail, and a dado with fielded panelling. The doors have six fielded panels set in bolection-moulded architraves. A bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround and well-crafted raised moulded panelling can be found in the room to the left of the entrance, while the room to the right boasts full raised and fielded panelling with a moulded cornice and a wooden Adam-style fireplace.