Hillside

Hillside is a house dating from the 16th century, with a late 16th-century inserted floor and an eastern end chimney. It was heightened to two storeys after a fire in the mid-20th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast walls and a first floor that is tile-hung with red tiles, topped by a red pantiled roof. Originally a single-storey house, it now consists of three unequal bays facing south, which likely represent a hall with a cross-passage defined by a truss, and an axially divided service bay at the western end.

The large external chimney on the eastern gable has a former wide fireplace that is now enclosed in a later single-storey extension. The south front has two windows on each floor and a central door. The windows are flush casement style with small panes, which have been renewed; there is a four-light window on the tile-hung first floor and a two-light window below. Inside, there is high-quality heavy chamfered framing with large flat joists exposed, and tie-beams above the skirtings of the first floor. A heavy post at the northeast corner with a chamfered curved brace suggests that the house may have originally extended further east, likely as a parlour bay. This building is an important late medieval structure associated with the nearby church.