Hill Top Farmhouse And Attached Archway

Hill Top Farmhouse and the attached archway date from the mid 17th century. The farmhouse is built of hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a two-cell, double-depth direct entry plan. The windows are all double-chamfered mullioned types. On the ground floor, there are former 4-light and 5-light windows with hoodmoulds, although the mullions have been removed and the sills lowered, now fitted with modern glazing. Above these, there is a 4-light window and a 5-light window. The doorway at the right-hand end has composite jambs and a lintel with a sunken recess, possibly for a date, and a chamfered surround. The right gable is coped with kneelers. A central stack rises to the ridge and is rendered.

At the rear, there are three altered mullioned windows that were originally 4 lights, 3 lights, and 3 lights. Steps lead to a first-floor doorway with tie-stone jambs, which may have been a taking-in door related to textile manufacture. There is a stack at the left-hand corner. The right-hand return wall features a blocked 3-light window and two 2-light windows above, all with hoodmoulds.

Attached to the left-hand end of the rear is a semicircular-arched stone gateway with composite jambs. This gateway is much weathered but retains Ionic capitals on the pilasters, a moulded impost, and ramped coping at the apex, which is topped with a ball finial. There is an inner rebate for gates.