Eastlow Hill Farmhouse

Eastlow Hill Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 15th century, with later additions. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and has a three-cell basic plan, with extensions at both ends. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof, and features a 19th-century red brick gable end on the west side. There is an internal chimney stack with a small plain red brick shaft. The windows are mainly 20th-century two-light standard casements, with one older three-light fixed window at the west end. The house has three gabled dormers and one large eyebrow dormer above the porch. The enclosed 20th-century gabled porch is rendered and has plaintiles, with diamond-leaded panes in the windows and a plank door.

Inside, the former open hall consists of two bays, with the upper bay being longer. Little of its original features remains; the tie-beam of the open truss has been cut away, and the roof appears to be of good-quality coupled rafter type. The chimney stack, which has one hearth, was inserted in the lower bay of the hall in the 16th century, leaving the original cross-entry behind it. The inserted ceiling over the hall, dating from the same period, is of very good quality, featuring an ogee-moulded main beam and joists. To the right of the stack, the medieval service area has had all its features concealed, while a 17th-century extension beyond it was likely used as a dairy. At the other end of the house, the partition wall between the hall and the parlour has been opened up, and a one-bay late 17th-century extension was added to the parlour, which has a ceiling of reused roll-moulded joists from a jettied building.