Hill Farm Old House

Hill Farm Old House is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is two storeys high and has a three-cell lobby-entrance layout. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. An internal chimney stack features a plain rendered shaft, while a 19th-century end stack is located externally on the south side.

On the first floor, there are two old casement windows with two lights each, and on the ground floor, there are two similar three-light casements, all fitted with pintle hinges. The house has an early 19th-century enclosed and gabled brick porch that is colour-washed and has a black-glazed pantiled roof. The porch features square hoodmoulds in a Tudor style above the doorway and side windows, along with a plank door that has applied pilaster strips.

A small brick lean-to extends along the south side and part of the front of the house. The structure is framed in four bays and does not include a chimney bay. The upper tie beams have been cut or removed, and there is some reused timber, along with various blocked original mullioned windows. Inside, two ceilings are exposed, showcasing chamfered main beams and unchamfered joists set flat. The roof is constructed with clasped purlins and windbraces. There is no evidence that the house originally had an open hall, but the internal chimney stack may have been added later. The kitchen features a cast iron oven door and a fine range by Richmond of Bungay, set within a fireplace surround dating from around 1840.