Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of two parts: a north crosswing from the 16th century and a four-bay main house aligned north-south, which features an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the south, creating a lobby entrance to the east, dating to around 1600. The house has two storeys, with a six-panel door set in an open pediment doorcase from the 18th century, three 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor, and four on the first floor. The roof of the main block is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, the main range includes chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, original hearths (the interior of the southern hearth is rounded), edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof. The crosswing features exposed framing internally and also has a clasped purlin roof. It is suggested that the crosswing may not have originally been a domestic building but is now part of the house.