Hill Cottage

Hill Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on Warley Road in Great Warley. It is constructed of red brick with a peg-tiled roof and a slated out-shut at the rear. The building has a rectangular plan and features gable end stacks, with a flush stack on the southwest side and a projecting stack on the northeast.

The cottage is one and a half storeys high. The southeast elevation has a two-window range with a central door. On the ground floor, there are two large depressed arches, rendered on the interior, each containing a small early 19th-century two-light casement window with a moulded architrave and weathering hood. The casements have glazing bars, with each light consisting of three panes by three panes. The central doorway, also early 19th-century, has an arched head and features a boarded door. A rudimentary wooden porch from the 20th century has been added to the front.

Above the ground floor, there are two gabled dormer windows, which have 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars, each light containing two panes by three panes. The northwest elevation features a full-length outshut, with the wall being timber-framed and weatherboarded, clasped between plain brick gable end walls. There is a central 19th-century boarded door, flanked by two 20th-century fixed windows with glazing bars, each with three panes by two panes. The roof continues down as a 'catslide', and a chimney stack rises through the roof at the southwest end.

The weatherboarded timber-framing of the outshut, along with the one and a half storey height and irregular placement of the end stack, suggests that the house may have an earlier core. Hill Cottage is an example of the vernacular cottages that were once common in Essex but are now becoming increasingly rare. It remains little altered from its original form.