The Homestead With Wall And Mounting Block

The Homestead is a house dated 1796, constructed with local Flemish bond brickwork and featuring an M-shaped triple-roman tile roof with coped verges and brick end stacks. The building has a symmetrical frontage and is two storeys high with three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows that are nearly flush with the wall, while the ground floor includes a 16-pane sash window to the right and French windows to the left, all adorned with rubbed brick voussoirs and a central stone key. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door topped with a pedimented hood supported by brackets. A datestone inscribed with 'John Hooper 1796' is prominently displayed. Inside, the right ground floor room features a particularly fine fireplace, a panelled fireplace wall, two niche cupboards, an ornate chair rail, and a moulded plaster cornice. The left ground floor room has an inglenook fireplace with a co-eval fitted settle on each side of the grate. Adjacent to the left of the frontage is a high brick wall that runs at right angles, which includes a door opening with a plank door, and to the left return is a coursed and squared rubble mounting block.