Hillside Farmhouse

Hillside Farmhouse is a house dating from the late medieval period with a taller crosswing added in the 17th century. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast and has steep old red tile roofs. It is designed in a T-plan, set back from the road and facing west, with a hall range that has 16 storeys and a crosswing that is two storeys with an attic.

The older hall has been truncated at both ends, and the current entrance and entrance passage on the north side of the wing may have replaced the former cross passage. There is a large internal stack at the north end of the hall range, which has pilaster strips on the shaft and space on its east side for a stair. The three-bay crosswing has a partitioned rear bay with a broad winding stair in the northeast corner leading to the attic. An impressive external chimney on the south side of the wing serves fireplaces on both the ground and first floors.

On the west front, there is a two-light casement window in the hall range, with a similar window in a dormer above. The show front of the gabled wing features separate jetties to the gable triangle, which has a small three-light attic window, and to the first floor, which has a four-light casement window. There is a canted bay window on the ground floor beneath the jetty, with a painted heavy battened door to the left.

Inside, the hall features an arched-braced tie-beam of an open truss above the upper floor level, with queen struts supporting the collar of the clasped-purlin roof. The north-end truss is of the inclined queen-post type. The inserted floor has bead-moulded joists supported by an axial beam that is moulded with a hollow chamfer plus roll on each side. The large two-bay room on the ground floor of the wing has a broad chamfered beam with stops, indicating that the passage partition is an addition. There is a fine four-centred fireplace made of Totternhoe stone with ovolo moulding within a cyma moulded square frame, and a smaller similar fireplace in the chamber on the first floor. The attic features a roof supported by two butt-purlins on each slope, and the plank door to the attic has iron fishtail pattern hinges. This farmhouse is a little-altered example of a 17th-century crosswing with a show front.