Hopewell House

Hopewell House is a mid-19th century, likely around 1870, two-storey, three-bay villa built in a mid-Victorian style. The building has a rectangular plan with multiple gables and gabled dormer windows. The exterior is constructed of grey granite, laid in a squared and snecked, Aberdeen bond pattern, with pink granite used as quoins and for margins around the window openings. The eaves overhang and feature exposed rafters, with barge boarding to the gable ends. Window reveals are chamfered, and the upper-storey windows have stopped hoodmouldings.

The south (principal) elevation has a timber, glazed porch in the centre, with a swept slate roof and a panelled door to the right return, alongside a window and a small gabled wallhead dormer above. An advanced gabled bay is located to the left, featuring an advanced, canted window with stone mullions on the ground floor, and a blind arrowslit at the gablehead. To the right, a slightly advanced gabled bay has a timber mullioned tripartite window at the centre of the ground floor, with a slightly projecting stone margin and a blind arrowslit to the gablehead.

The north (rear) elevation has paired windows to the centre, with a small wallhead dormer above; an advanced gabled bay to the left includes a rear entrance on the right return, while a slightly advanced gabled bay to the right features a timber mullioned bipartite window on the ground floor, left-hand side.

The east (side) elevation displays a three-bay, regular fenestration pattern with two-part windows on the ground floor and wallhead dormers on the upper floor. A large gabled roof dormer is centrally positioned on the left.

The west (garden) elevation includes an advanced gabled bay in the centre with a gabled porch to the left return. A projecting, battered flue rises above the eaves of the bay to the right. Regular fenestration is found on the left bay, with a small, single-storey, gabled outhouse attached to the northwest corner.

The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashing. The building has battered twin gable and ridge stacks. The interior was not inspected in 2002.

A walled garden exists to the south, featuring a high coped rubble wall abutting an octagonal granite summerhouse to the northwest corner, with a slated, swept pyramidal roof. A low, coped wall over a retaining terrace wall creates a semicircular, south-facing garden, adjacent to the summerhouse.

A single-storey, six-bay, gabled steading constructed of squared granite courses is also present. It has a slightly advanced gabled bay in the centre, with a gabled bellcote at the apex and a carriage arch filled with a multi-pane window. Gabled roof dormers break the eaves, and the steading has plate glass sash and case windows with grey slates, lead flashing, coped skews, and stacks.

A coped rubble boundary wall, low to the south and high to the north, defines the property. Square-plan gate piers with hipped gablet caps mark the entrance.