Hobland House

Hobland House is a house likely built in the 1880s. It is constructed of light red brick with dressings of darker red brick and bands of blue brick, with a small area of red fish-scale tile-hanging on the south-east side. The roof is covered in red tiles, and the brick chimneys have square shafts with projecting brick-course caps. The house has a double L-shaped plan: the main range is set at right angles to the road, with one wing projecting to the rear on the left and another projecting to the front on the right. A further room with an entrance porch is positioned in the angle of the L to the left. Lean-tos run along the right-hand side, and the front lean-to may be a later addition.

The two-storey house has a garret in the centre block, and the lean-tos are single-storeyed. The design is deliberately asymmetrical, showing an enthusiasm for vernacular architecture. The front of the house, facing the road, has three segmental-headed windows with two-light mullioned and transomed wood frames. The right-hand window has been altered, but the upper lights of the other two retain old glass and have trefoiled heads with small round lights in the spandrels. There’s a bracketed projecting brick course above these windows. On the second storey, a three-light wood mullioned window is positioned to the right, with two panes in each light. To the left is a tall half-hipped gable with one window in each storey. The second-storey window here has a segmental-headed frame with a mullioned and transomed wood casement, with two panes in the lower lights. A third-storey window has three wood-mullioned lights. Blue brick bands are visible in the second storey at sill level and halfway up the windows.

To the left of the gable is a lean-to entrance porch, featuring two ogee-headed wood windows on turned columns. The door has six raised and fielded panels, with glazing above and a large diamond-shaped panel topped by two small square panels. A fanlight containing a wood cross is above the door. An octagonal stone shaft carved with the inscription “EDAX RERUM” stands outside the door. The interior has not been inspected.