Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early or mid 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and mid 19th centuries. It features a three-cell open hall design with a cross-passage entrance and is two storeys high. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that includes a 16th-century axial chimney made of red brick. A gable chimney was added to the left side in the 19th century. The windows are mid 19th-century small pane sashes and casements, and there is a four-panelled entrance door.

Inside, the central open hall boasts a well-preserved crownpost roof, complete with a cross-quadrate crownpost at the open truss, all of which are heavily smoke-blackened. Originally, the roof was hipped at both ends, with evidence of a high-level gablet on the right-hand parlour end that allowed smoke to escape. In the 16th century, both ends of the roof were altered to gabled using coupled-rafter construction. In the 17th century, an open collar-beam truss was added over the parlour-chamber to provide additional headroom. An upper floor was constructed over the open hall in the 16th or 17th century, and a chimney was inserted between the hall and parlour. During significant refurbishment in the 19th century, the house was functionally reversed, converting the parlour into a kitchen.