Hill Cottage

Hill Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, constructed with a timber frame and featuring steep half-hipped thatched roofs. It has a tall red brick chimney that rises at the junction of the wings, with a later additional flue on the west wing. The walls are plastered, with a weatherboarded apron and side walls on the west wing. The building is arranged in an L-shape facing south and represents a complete 16th-century range, possibly linked to a hall to the west that was replaced by the later west wing. It is marked as 'Clarkes' on the Clintons Estate map from 1588.

The single-storey west wing was rebuilt in the late 17th century and may have been shortened to one bay later on. A low pantiled lean-to was added in 1969. The main living space is located in the eastern part of the house, which has two storeys with a north room and a south room on each floor. The lobby and cross stair have been removed from the rear north rooms. The south rooms are heated by an external lateral chimney on the west, with a lobby entrance on its south flank taken from the west wing, and a fireplace on each floor.

The building features dripboards on brackets across the gables at eaves level and small two-light wooden casements that have been renewed. The plank door is painted. Inside, there are exposed timbers, including close-studding, tension braces, heavy jowled posts, and a roughly finished four-bay clasped purlin roof that was likely originally underceiled up to the collars. A central cross partition is plastered up to the apex of the roof. The axial floor beams are chamfered and stopped, and the joists are square. The lower west wing is timber-framed and plastered up the roof slope and under the collars, and it formerly had a separate south entrance. Corner ties are present across the northeast and southeast corners on the wall plate. The interior of the eastern part remains virtually unchanged, with brick floors still in place.