Hill House

Hill House is a house with an attached cottage located on Cock Lane in Headlam. It dates from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century and late 20th century. The exterior features roughcast and painted sandstone rubble with dressed quoins, and it has four rebuilt brick stacks. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, covered with renewed pantiles. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high, with a three-by-three bay layout, and a single-bay cottage attached to the left side.

The windows are mainly renewed sashes, and there is a central canted porch with a four-panel door and a pantiled roof. Above the porch is a fire-insurance mark and a mid-wall, round-arched staircase window. To the left of the porch is a 24-pane sash window, while to the right are two 16-pane sashes. On the garden front, there is a central Tuscan doorcase with panelled reveals and soffit, leading to a four-panel, partly-glazed door with an overlight. The ground and first floors on either side feature slightly bowed 16-pane sashes, and there is a 16-pane sash above the doorway. The roof has a slight sweep with plain, close eaves, and two rendered lateral stacks with ornamental, square-plan chimneypots rise from the left and right returns.

Inside, the house has been mainly renewed but retains several six-panel doors and window shutters. The cut-string, open-well staircase has three flights, with two stick balusters per tread supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail.

There is a detached barn to the west of the house, but it is not of special interest.