Hill Cottage

ASHOVER SK3463 HILL ROAD 1264-0/11/53 (East side) Hill Cottage GV II House, formerly school. Dated 1703, but with earlier work, and a comprehensive remodelling in the late C19. Coursed squared gritstone with quoins, ashlar dressings, oversailing eaves and verges, the eaves with plain bargeboards. End and ridge ashlar stacks and a Welsh slated roof. South elevation of 2 storeys and 3 bays, with gablets above first floor window heads to outer bays. Central doorway with chamfered quoined surround, and a massive lintel. Above a C19 door is an upper glazed panel. Flanking windows with plain casements within flush stone frames. Rectangular single-light window above doorway. West gable with blocked 3-light late C16 chamfered mullioned windows with 3-arched heads, and below a bulls-eye window. Rear wing with ground-floor double doors, and first floor plain casements. Above the door, a plaque is inscribed: '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.'

Listing NGR: SK3494763710