Hilltop Cottage

Hilltop Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, which was restored in the late 20th century. It features a timber frame with brick and wattle infill set on a rubble and brick base, with some areas rendered and others replaced with brick. The roof is plain tiled. The layout consists of a hall and a cross-wing, with the hall comprising three framed bays aligned north-east to south-west, and the cross-wing at the north-east end consisting of two framed bays. There is also a service wing of two framed bays to the south-west, which includes an external brick chimney and a bread oven at the south-east gable end. The building has part single storey with an attic featuring dormers, and part two storeys.

The timber framing includes three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with short straight braces in some upper corners. The north-east cross-wing has two rows of panels per storey, and its north-east side is jettied, supported by a moulded bressummer on shaped brackets. The structure features collar and tie-beam trusses with struts throughout.

On the main south-east elevation, there are mainly 20th-century casement windows. The hall section has two 2-light windows and an 8-pane window on the ground floor, along with three gabled dormers featuring 2-light windows and a half-glazed door. There are two ledged and battened doors beneath a plank weathering, and a glazed door located in the right angle beneath a lean-to porch with a cat-slide roof supported by a timber post. The north-west wing gable end includes a 20th-century multi-paned bow window and a 2-light window on the first floor. The south-west wing features a ledged and battened door at the angle with the hall range.