Close Cottage Hallside the Hall

Close Cottage, part of Hallside, is a house dating from the 18th century, likely with origins in the 17th century. It has been subdivided into three separate dwellings. The building is constructed of whitewashed brick with a roof of Swithland slate, featuring various ridge and end stacks. Windows are in a Strawberry Hill Gothic style, and projecting gables are present at each end. The windows are mostly two-light pointed arch casements, with a single-light window in the left gable, two two-lights in the centre, and two two-lights on the right gable. Ground-floor windows are similar, with a partially glazed door in the right-centre situated within a large, early 20th-century gabled wooden porch. Each gable features a single-light window with a brick band above, and an apex stack. A battlemented parapet runs along the front. The rear garden front is higher and features two projecting wings with hipped roofs, sash windows, and bay windows. A rubble stone and brick garden wall, approximately 3 metres high, extends from the left end of the front, turning at right angles, and has prominent buttresses. Separate entrances to Hallside are on the left side and to Close Cottage on the right.