Hillside House

Hillside House is a house dating from 1858, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and roofed with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a T-shaped plan, with its main elevation facing northwest. It is built in the Victorian Gothic style, with two storeys and attics.

The front elevation exhibits a gable to the crosswing, featuring a projecting two-storey bay, set back to the right of this. An entrance porch, also two-storeys high, is surmounted by a shingled timber bell turret and a projecting open porch. A brick stack with a relief panel is centrally positioned on the right-hand section of the elevation, and a canted projecting bay is located at ground floor level on the right-hand corner. Timber mullion and transom windows are a prominent feature, with diamond leaded lights rebated in openings, with one projecting bay at ground floor level, and two centre arched heads with decorative moulded bricks at first floor level in the right-hand section. Canted sills are present beneath the windows. One window in the bay has a dripmould with flint inset above, and thin brick buttresses on the splays, a detail repeated on the canted bay at the right-hand end of the elevation. A parapet tops the crosswing gable, while the eaves of the projecting bays and the front elevation incorporate projecting string courses of decorative brick.

The front door sits in an open recess with a two-course segmental brick archway, with a diagonally tiled floor. The door itself has thirteen panels; the lower six feature shields, and the upper five form part of a two-centre arch design with decorated spandrels. A heavy doorcase includes quadrant and hollow mouldings. An open timber porch fronts the entrance.

The southwest-facing side elevation has two gables, one with decorative ribs and corbels beneath a verge, and the other with a parapet. The left-hand gable features a recessed roundel in its apex, a diaper pattern in burnt headers, and a square inset flint panel. It has two windows: one central at first floor, and one offset at ground floor, both with mullion and transom windows similar to those on the front elevation. The right-hand gable has a decorative roundel with polychrome splayed bricks directly above a tripartite window with arched heads. A large window with two centre brick arched heads is positioned above the first floor, featuring timber tracery in a "Y" form with diamond-shaped leaded lights.

The roof form is irregular, with a hexagonal structure over the entrance porch. Gables have both parapets and a variety of bargeboards, ranging from simple straight types to curved types with fret-cut quatrefoil motifs on the open porch. Decorative ridge tiles are also present. Four stacks, each of a different design with moulded projecting courses including dentil, are visible.

The interior retains many original features, including a pillared central entrance hall with trefoils to the balustrade, high beamed ceilings, gothic panelled doors, and an open-well staircase lit by a large gothic window with stained margin panes. Most of the chimney pieces have been removed.