Hill House

Hill House is an early 19th-century house, formerly used as Maldon Borough Council offices. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a slate hipped roof, a lead flat roof, and a belvedere with a pyramid slate roof and small-pane windows. The house is square in shape, built on a projecting basement that serves as a platform. A wide, curving flight of stone steps leads up from the side to the ground-floor level.

The exterior has three storeys over the basement platform and comprises a three-window range. Thin pilasters mark the corners. The second floor has sash windows; the outer two have two vertical glazing bars, while the central window has a central vertical bar and margin glazing. The first floor windows are deeper sashes; the outer ones have nine panes, and the central one has six panes with margin glazing. The ground floor features a central porch with a moulded cornice and fluted Grecian Doric columns. The sides of the porch have margin-glazed sash windows with yellow glass, and there are two further sash windows, currently boarded up. The platform above the projecting basement has elaborate cast-iron railings and a paved surface with exceptionally large stone (or slate) slabs. The front face of the basement has a central entrance with paired pilasters and a moulded cornice, and either side are two wide, segmental-headed window openings and two doors with Doric pilasters and cornices. Windows on the basement and ground floors have rendered arches with keystones. At the time of survey, the lower windows and doors were boarded up. A Gault brick stack and a later oriel window on the first floor are visible on the south-east flank, while the north-west flank has a truncated stack and a fire escape staircase. A porch is located at ground-floor level on the rear.

The interior features a high-quality softwood timber frame and a central hall with a staircase. Many original internal fittings remain, including the contemporary staircase, doors, and architraves.