The Hill

The Hill comprises two houses, now combined into a single property, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with 20th-century remodelling and a western extension added in 1973-4. The construction is timber-framed with plastered walls, and colourwashed brick, featuring old tiled gabled roofs. The south ranges have hipped roofs and a prominent, massive brick chimney stack with clustered shafts, banding, and oversailing courses above the eaves on the west elevation. The building is situated on a sloping site, resulting in the west front appearing as two storeys, with the east front presenting as single-storey with attics due to the ground level.

The west elevation has four windows: three flush-set small-paned casements, and one 12-pane sash window. A molded band runs along the first-floor level. The ground floor features a three-light casement, a flush-set six-pane sash with a molded architrave, and a nine-panel glazed door within a doorcase comprising Tuscan columns, a 'Gothick' frieze, and a modillion cornice supporting an open pediment with a tiled roof. The east elevation has three gabled dormers with sash windows, one following the long downward slope of the roof, with two half-dormers situated to the right of a red brick chimney stack with an external chimneybreast. A 6-panel door provides access to the lower ground floor, set within a doorcase with slim molded pilasters and a cornice with wrought-iron brackets. There are two six-pane sash windows to the right, while the north flank features weatherboarding at first-floor level and a three-light casement.

The interior has been largely opened up; the ground floor of the west range acts as a full-length sitting room with a diagonally set chimneybreast but no fireplace. First-floor rooms feature 18th-century four-panel doors. The roof structure is of 18th-century queen strut construction, incorporating reused timber rafters. The Hill served as the Bailiff's house on the Panshanger Estate until 1954, and in the 19th century, further cottages were situated on the lower part of the site.