Hampers Farmhouse (EHER 29735)

15th century or earlier timber-framed house with later alterations.

NRHE data transfer: Hampers Farm [NAT]. <1> Hampers Farmhouse. House of the 15th century or earlier with later alterations. RCHM 2. Grade II. <2> Hamper's Farm, house, now two tenements, 640 yards south of the church, is of two storeys, timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. It was built late in the 15th century on an L-shaped plan with the wings extending towards the south and east. The hall is in the middle of the south wing; late in the 16th or early in the 17th century it was divided into two storeys, and a chimney-stack was inserted at the south end. There is a modern addition at the end of the east wing. At each end of the west front the upper storey projects and is gabled; both projections have original moulded bressummers. Inside the building, the rooms on the ground floor have stop-chamfered ceiling-beams, and in the east wall of the east wing is a blocked window of four lights with square mullions set diagonally. In the middle room of the south wing is a small piece of late 16th century panelling. On the first floor is the roof-truss of the former Hall, which was of two bays, the truss has a cambered and braced tie-beam, rebated king-post with four-way struts, and a central purlin. The roof of the east wing has three braced tie-beams. Condition - Fairly good. <3> See also: <4> <5>