Hill Farmhouse

Hill Farmhouse is a house dating back to about 1500, with significant additions and alterations made in the mid-16th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered and whitewashed timber-frame, with a brick service wing, a projecting painted brick porch on the south side, and partial rebuilding in painted brick of the lower part of the east gable end. The roof is covered in pantiles.

The house is arranged around a three-unit plan, plus a lower service range, for a total of three ranges aligned east-west with a gable facing the road. The main entrance is within a gabled brick porch on the south side. To the right is a three-bay, two-storey and attic range dating to the mid-16th century. To the left of this is a lower, two-storey range dating to about 1500, and to the far left is a single-storey service range from the early 19th century, which is shown on a tithe map from 1839. Most windows are currently boarded. The south elevation has a window on each floor of the 16th-century range, a 20th-century porch, a door with a window to the right, and a window above a door in the 1500 range. There is a single window in the service range, and a lean-to addition to the left end of that range. The north side features a door with a window to the right, another door in the central range with a window on each floor to the left, and a stable door, window, and another door in the service range.

The interior retains much of the original wall framing and cross-framing, particularly in the 1500 range. The 16th-century range has close-studded framing with external curved braces and a queen-post roof with trusses carried on tie beams and jowled posts with curved braces, and long coupled rafters. In the east bay of this range, the original first-floor joists remain, jointed into a chamfered bridging beam with large splayed stops. Above the east gable end of this range are two blocked square mullioned windows, and a blocked similar window is present in the central bay. A narrow west bay of the 16th-century range once contained a stack, which has since been removed, but the bridging beam separating it from the central bay retains evidence of a former opening to the hearth. The 1500 range features heavy close-studded framing, cranked trenched braces, cambered tie beams, and a chamfered bridging beam. The west gable truss has lighter framing above the tie, but the remainder of the roof is of 20th-century construction above the ties.