How Gill House

How Gill House is a late 18th-century house located on the south side of Newbiggin along the B6277. It is constructed of limewashed coursed rubble with quoins and painted ashlar dressings, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof featuring stone gable copings and rubble chimneys. The house is two storeys high with two bays and has a set-back, two-storey, one-bay extension on the left.

The entrance features a plain stone surround with a partly-glazed door positioned to the left of centre. The flanking late 19th-century sash windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The first-floor sash windows are similar, also with projecting stone sills and lintels at the eaves. The roof is supported by moulded kneelers and has flat gable copings, with an ashlar chimney on the left and a rubble chimney on the right, both featuring top strings. The slightly later left extension has renewed fixed lights and a chimney at the left end. The left return of the main block displays throughstones in a blank gable.