Court Of Hill

This is a manor house with medieval origins, substantially rebuilt in 1683, and altered in the early 19th century and 1927. It is constructed of brick with ashlar quoins and dressings, and incorporates a cyma-moulded ashlar string course at the first floor and below the cornice. The roof is hipped, covered with plain tiles, and features a deep concave plastered cornice below deep eaves. The property has three large brick lateral stacks with clusters of spurred shafts and caps, and a ridge stack with three diagonal shafts to the east extension ridge.

Originally rectangular and double-pile in plan, the house has later extension wings to the rear. The south front is a two-storey, seven-window range with restored wood mullion and transom windows set within ashlar surrounds. A central glazed panelled door is framed by an ashlar surround, topped with a flat gauged ashlar lintel bearing a carved console keystone. Above the door is an ashlar tablet displaying armorial bearings and the date 1683. There are four hipped dormers with two-light casements.

The west side has a four-window range, with three windows blocked, leaving a single mullion and transom window on the left. A similar window is present in the two-storey extension to the left of the original west side. A Venetian window with an ashlar surround is located at ground floor level on the right, partially obscured by a later projecting single-storey entrance extension with a flat roof and parapet. This extension features an ashlar entrance door surround flanked by tall multi-pane windows and a Venetian window to the left. Two hipped dormers with two-light casements are also present.

The east side has a four-window range of mullion and transom windows; the window on the left has been blocked, and that to the right altered with a raised head. A later projecting single-storey bay window with a crenellated parapet covers the ground floor to the left. Again, two hipped dormers with two-light casements are present. A stone rubble wing adjoins the right, featuring a two-storey, two-window range of restored 6/6 sash windows with flat lintels, and a single hipped dormer.

At the rear, a two-window range of mullion and transom windows is visible, with gauged brick lintels and brick hoodmoulds above. The right side is covered by a two-storey brick west extension bay, with a small two-storey brick projection in the centre, and a two-storey and attic stone rubble wing extending to the left, which continues with a single-storey and attic stone rubble wing.

The interior features a 17th-century staircase with an open well and heavy balusters. Some original 17th-century panelling and an overmantel have been restored and reset in the former entrance hall. There is an early 19th-century coffered ceiling with naturalistic foliate ornamented friezes. The armorial bearings above the former south entrance are believed to represent Andrew Hill, the builder of the 1683 work, impaling the arms of his wife, Anne Powys of Henley near Ludlow.