Hill Cottage

Hill Cottage is a house that was formerly a school, dated 1703, though it incorporates earlier work and underwent significant remodelling in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with quoins and features ashlar dressings, oversailing eaves, and verges, with plain bargeboards. It has end and ridge ashlar stacks and a roof covered with Welsh slates.

The south elevation is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with gablets above the first-floor window heads in the outer bays. The central doorway has a chamfered quoined surround and a massive lintel, with a 19th-century door that includes an upper glazed panel. The flanking windows are plain casements set within flush stone frames, and there is a rectangular single-light window above the doorway.

On the west gable, there are blocked three-light late 16th-century chamfered mullioned windows with three-arched heads, along with a bulls-eye window below. The rear wing features ground-floor double doors and first-floor plain casements. Above the door, a plaque reads: 'George Hodgkinson of Overton Hall and Ann his wife designed this school. It was finished by William Hodgekinson, his son and Elizabeth his wife. Anno 1703. Udum et molle intum es nunc preperondus et acti firgend es. Fine, Fine vota.'