Poplars House

Poplars House is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating from circa 1700, with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone, with a thatched roof and stone end and ridge stacks, with a brick end stack to the left. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan with a through-passage. It has two storeys and an attic and originally had a five-window front. A six-panel door is located to the right of centre, set within a pegged wood surround, a wood lintel, and a straight hood on brackets. A smaller blacked door is to the left with a moulded stone surround. There are two 16-pane sash windows to the right with stop-chamfered wood lintels. In other locations, there are two-light casement windows to both the ground and first floors, set within stone surrounds, these being replacements for original stone mullion windows. A window is blocked on the first floor to the left. The projecting wing to the far left has similar two-light windows to the right side, a blacked cellar and a ground floor window to the gable end. The first floor has a three-light casement window replacing a former stone mullion window, and a pair of blacked vertical oval windows to the gable, which have keyed stone surrounds. The building features a chamfered plinth and quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. The left side elevation has a single ovolo-moulded window to the first floor. The rear elevation has a 20th-century plank door to the right of centre, with chamfered stone jambs and a moulded stone lintel. A full-height stair turret to the left of centre has a blocked two-light stone mullion cellar window, a pair of stepped one-light windows illuminating the flights of stairs to the ground and first floors, with moulded stone surrounds and hood moulds, a blocked circular window with a moulded stone surround and a stone-coped gable with kneelers. A 16-pane window is located to the ground floor far left with a wood lintel. There are two- and five-light casement windows to the ground floor with moulded stone surrounds, these originally mullioned. The first floor has a four-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion leaded window to the far left, similar two-light windows to the left of the stair turret and above, and a similar three-light window to the right of the turret. A gabled dormer window sits above the latter, with a similar three-light window. The interior includes a dog-leg staircase from the ground floor to the attic, with turned balusters. Notable features include ogee stop-chamfered spine beams, one room with fielded panelling, and two fitted cupboards with round-arched heads and shaped shelves. Another room has a similar cupboard. The house also has a stone-flagged hall and a stone cellar.