Description

SY 09 SE NEWTON POPPLEFORD SOUTHERTON
AND HARPFORD
4/79 Hopping Farmhouse
-

GV II

Farmhouse. C17, possibly earlier core; one end rebuilt in early C19 and the rest
modernised at the same time. The older part is plastered cob on stone rubble
footings; cob or stone rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. The early
C19 section is plastered brick, the stack is brick and the roof slate.
The house faces south and has a 3-room and through-passage plan with the inner room
at the right (eastern) end. The inner room has an end stack and the hall has an
axial stack backing onto the inner room. The service end room was rebuilt in the
early C19 higher than the rest and with a large axial stack between the main room
and a small end store or dairy. A winder stair turret projects to rear near the
upper end of the hall. In the C19 a corridor was created along the rear of the hall
and at the same time outshots were built (or rebuilt) along the back.
Overall 6-window front. The 4-window front of the lower and older part comprise
probably C18 casements. They are 3 lights except a 2-light window over the door and
contain rectangular panes of old leaded glass. Only the ground floor right window
has a replacement casement with glazing bars. The first floor windows here have low
thatch eyebrows over. There are sloping buttresses between the windows and another
at the right end. The front passage doorway contains a late C19 4-panel door with
the top panels glazed. The 2-window section to left, the rebuilt section, contains
C19 casements with glazing bars under low segmental arches. The roof is gable-ended
to right and the slate section higher than the thatch and hipped at the end.
Interior is largely the result of the early C19 modernisation although this seems to
have been mostly superficial in the passage, hall and inner room. In the hall the
crossbeam is C17; it is soffit-chamfered with scroll stops. The crossbeam in the
inner room is boxed in. Both hall and inner room fireplaces are blocked by good C19
grates with marble chimneypieces. The C19 service end room has a large brick
kitchen fireplace and a soffit-chamfered crossbeam with runout stops. The roofspace
is inaccessible but the feet of the principals suggest that the lower roof is made
up of C17 A-frame trusses.
Hopping is a good C17 farmhouse, improved in the early C19 and not modernised since.
Considerable care should be exercised in future modernisations since it is quite
likely that C17 or even earlier features would be uncovered.

Listing NGR: SY0785790573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614055

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House