Listed Building: OUTBUILDINGS TO SOUTH WEST OF HIPPER HALL (1218543)

Farm outbuildings. Late C16 with C17 and C19 alterations. Timber framed, now encased in coursed rubble sandstone ,with weatherboarding to some parts of the upper floor. Stone slated roof. Two storeys, two bays, with the lower walls of two former bays, and the remains of the north-east gable wall surviving from a partial collapse in 1990. North-west elevation devoid of openings, and mainley stone walled, the walling incorporating massive padstones for the frame posts, one of which remains in situ. South-west gable with stone stair case and overloft doorway beneath a plain stone lintel. Standing two bays include one complete framed partition wall, supporting the queen-strut roof truss which itself carries a braced single-purlin roof, with a digonally set ridge purlin. Tie beam supported by jowel post, with curved braces running laterally and longitudinally from the post to the tie beam and wallplate soffits. The jowel post carry intermediate rails and wall-plates. The bay at the south-west end is an addition, with a stone partition wall, and incorporates a single cruck truss. The building is an inportant indicator of the timber-framing vernacular traditions which pre-date stone masonry in upland Derbyshire. Listing NGR: SK3398569547