Hillands

Hillands is a late 15th-century, three-bay open hall-house with a two-bay parlour wing. The building is two storeys high and constructed with timber framing featuring square framing and painted brick infilling. The south front has been refaced with painted brick. It has a hipped tiled roof with gablets and an off-centre 17th-century chimneystack. The house includes four casement windows and cross-shaped iron ties. A crown post is located over the centre of the solar, and there is framing for a smoke vent in the smoke-blackened rafters above the open hall. Evidence suggests there was a smoke bay before the chimney was added, and remnants of a spere truss can still be seen. Historically, grain was stored in the upstairs rooms, and it is said that the farmer would guard it by sleeping on a flat door over the stairs.