Hopbiness Including Rear Cob Boundary Walls To East And West

Hopbines is a house that likely dates from the early 19th century and was enlarged around 1970. It is constructed from plastered rubble and features rubble stacks with 19th and 20th century thick brick chimney shafts, topped with a thatched roof. The main block faces south and has a double depth plan, consisting of one front and one rear room on either side of a central entrance hall. There is a 20th century extension at right angles to the rear of the right (east) side. The front rooms are served by end stacks and a large rear lateral kitchen stack on the rear left. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window front where the original symmetrical arrangement appears to have been renewed in the mid to late 19th century with tall 12-pane sash windows. The ground floor on the right features a 20th century canted bay window without glazing bars. The thatched eaves over the first floor windows have exaggerated eyebrows, with another eyebrow in the centre. The central entrance has a plank door with an overlight and a plain flat hood. The roof has an unusually steep pitch, is hipped at both ends, and is flanked by tall chimney shafts.

On the left (west) front, there are late 19th century French windows with glazing bars and triangular headed top lights that contain geometric patterns of leaded glass. Above these is a casement window with an arched head that also features a geometric pattern of leaded glass, topped by a thatched gable. A similar window is found in the rear elevation. The 20th century extension includes various windows with glazing bars and has a hipped thatched roof at the rear. High plastered cob walls with rubble footings extend east and west along the roadside from each side of the rear block, with pitched pantile coping. The western boundary wall features a crank-headed archway. The interior has not been inspected.