Hilltop House

Hilltop House is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed limestone, featuring timber lintels and some ashlar quoins, topped with a plain-tile roof and brick gable stacks. The house has a central stair plan with a cross-wing and stands two storeys high plus attics. The front has three windows, with a projecting gable to the right that includes 2-light casements across three floors. The central door, added in the 20th century, is topped with a stone hood supported by brackets and has a 2-light casement above it. To the left, there are 16-pane sash windows on the ground and first floors, framed by narrow brick quoins, with traces of earlier openings on either side. A stone parapet with plain coping extends from the gable stack on the projecting wing to the stack on the gable wall to the left. At the rear of the cross-wing, there is an additional 20th-century wing. Inside, there is an open fireplace featuring a chamfered bressumer and a bread oven, as well as a chamfered and stopped beam. The early 18th-century dog-leg stair has heavy turned balusters and wide treads.