Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3180 HOPTON STREET
636-1/1/446 (East side)
02/03/50 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive)
Hopton's Almshouses, Hopton Gardens
(Formerly Listed as:
HOPTON STREET
(East side)
Hopton's Almshouses)

GV II*

Almshouses. 1746-9, partly rebuilt and modernised C20. Built
by Thomas Ellis and William Cooley to designs of Mr Batterson,
trustee of Charles Hopton's will and a builder.
MATERIALS: brick with rusticated stone quoins; tiled roofs
with overhanging eaves, hipped at ends; some roofs renewed.
PLAN: 2 linked blocks, forming the northern range of
originally 28 almshouses, grouped around 3 sides of a garden.
Western end of range, originally Nos 1-3, is a C-shaped block,
rebuilt after war damage, now adapted as 6 dwellings; linked
by a brick arch to a range, originally of 4 (now Nos 7-9); all
buildings modernised and re-opened 1988.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 bays each; some doors now replaced with
windows. Ground-floor openings with segmental, gauged red
brick arches; sash windows with glazing bars in plain reveals
to both floors.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3183080362

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531328

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)