Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse is a mid-16th century farmhouse with alterations dating from the early 17th and 19th centuries. It may have begun as a two-cell house, with further cells added to both ends in the early 17th century. The house is timber-framed and has a pebble-dashed exterior, covered by a plaintiled roof with internal and end chimneys of red brick. It has casement windows of three and four lights, mostly with leaded lights. The ground-floor windows have transomes and are largely renewed from the late 19th or early 20th century. A 19th-century entrance door features five sunk and beaded panels, a finely-reeded architrave and a flat-roofed canopy supported on fluted columns, which is likely a later addition. Inside the hall, a substantial 16th-century first-floor structure remains. A parlour cell was added in the early 17th century, incorporating a moulded bridging joist and some 17th-century plasterwork. A further cell was added in the 17th century to the service end, along with a new roof featuring two tiers of butt-purlins on each slope, the upper tier wind-braced. Back-to-back fireplaces were inserted into the hall and parlour. Later alterations were made to the service end, and an outshut was added to the rear in the 18th or early 19th century.