Hill Top Cottages

Hill Top Cottages is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the mid-16th century and has been extended and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with plastered walls and a steeply pitched pantiled roof. It has a large three-cell plan, likely with a cross passage originally, and additions at the rear of the service end that form an L shape. The structure is two storeys high with a five-window front. The entrances are located towards each end and have part-glazed doors with bracketed hoods, along with one and two-light glazing bar casements. The eaves are boxed, and there is a rebuilt axial ridge stack located to the left of center between the hall and parlour. The right gable end has a pentice board, with exposed double purlins and plates.

At the rear right, 19th and 20th-century service bays have been added, featuring 20th-century casements, a lower ridge, and two stacks. Inside, the hall includes a heavily and continuously moulded cross axial binding beam and storey posts, with double roll and fillet mouldings flanking a central cavetto moulding. The parlour has a triple roll and cavetto moulded cross axial binding beam on shafted storey posts, roll moulded joists, reverse curved bracing, and exposed close studding in the service end. On the first floor, the jowled and elaborately moulded posts have arched braces leading to cambered tie beams, with stop-chamfered binding beams. The roof is a queen post design with cranked braces extending from the jowled posts down to the tie beams, and arched braces from the posts up to the arcade plates and purlins.