4-6, HILLSIDE

This is a row of three houses located at 4-6 Hillside, built in the early 19th century with some alterations made in the mid-19th century. The houses are constructed from squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and feature a slate roof with overhanging eaves, one ridge, and two gable stacks. They rise three storeys above cellars. Most of the windows are glazing bar sashes set within plain stone surrounds.

No. 4, on the left, has three bays, with the third bay featuring a two-storey timber canted bay window on a stone base. This bay window has timber casements with glazing bars and timber mullions, and between the storeys are blind mullioned and transomed panels. The central bay contains a doorway with a timber porch topped by a leaded canopy on brackets.

No. 5 has one bay to the left of the door, which includes a sashed window on the ground floor. The bay to the right features a pair of glazing bar sashes in a stone surround with a central flat-faced mullion; the right-hand window of this pair appears to belong to No. 6. The door is set within a shallow timber porch over a plain stone surround.

No. 6 consists of two bays, with a doorway in the left-hand bay. The right-hand bay has a window for the second floor above a two-storey canted timber bay window similar to that of No. 4, but with casement windows that do not have glazing bars. This doorway also has a shallow timber porch over a plain stone surround.

Historically, at least two straight joints in the front wall indicate that the houses may not have been built at the same time, despite the similarity in stonework. The bay windows are not depicted on the 1845 Ordnance Survey map.