Hopbiness Including Rear Cob Boundary Walls To East And West

LAPFORD EASTINGTON SS 70 NW 4/75 - Hopbines including rear cob boundary walls to east and west - II

House. Probably early C19, enlarged circa 1970. Plastered rubble; rubble stacks with C19 and C20 thick brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. Main block facing south has double depth plan with one front and one rear room on either side of central entrance hall. C20 extension at right angles to rear of right (east). Front rooms served by end stacks and large rear lateral kitchen stack to rear left. 2 storeys. 2-window front in which original symmetrical fenestration appears to have been renewed in mid or late C19 with tall 12-pane sashes, and ground floor right has C20 canted bay window without glazing bars. Exaggerated eyebrows in thatched eaves over first floor windows and another in centre. Central plank door with overlight and plain flat hood. Roof with unusually steep pitch is hipped each end and is flanked by tall chimney shafts. Left (west) front has late C19 French windows with glazing bars and triangular headed top lights containing geometric patterns of leaded glass towards rear and above it a casement with arched head (sloping sides and flat top) containing geometric pattern of leaded glass. Thatched gable over. Another similar window in rear elevation. C20 extension has various windows with glazing bars and thatched roof hipped to rear. From each side of rear block high plastered cob walls on rubble footings with pitched pantile coping extend east and westwards along roadside. Western boundary wall includes a crank-headed archway. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7463109030