Hill House

Hill House is a detached house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made around the 1720s-30s and in the early 19th century. The construction is of rubble with freestone dressings and quoins, topped by a slate roof with coped raised verges and ashlar stacks. The house is two storeys high, with a cellar to the right and attics within hipped dormers.

The central part of the house features a paired glazing bar sash window within a moulded architrave. To the left and right of this are two similar, blocked single windows; flanking the right window is a French window, also in a moulded architrave, with a flat stone hood supported by brackets. The left side of the house has prominent French quoins, leading to a two-storey wing with a hipped roof and a three-light casement window with ovolo-moulded mullions and surrounds. A single-bay section to the right has a steep gable and contains early 19th-century sash windows, with remains of a casement within ovolo-moulded surrounds in the basement. The east elevation has two storeys and a steep gable. It features early 19th-century glazing bar sash windows on the ground floor, and casements with ovolo-moulded mullions and surrounds above. A two-storey bow window extends to the right, incorporating early to mid-18th century thick glazing bar sash windows within moulded architraves and sits beneath a moulded cornice.

Inside, the ground floor centre room has a fireplace with a moulded architrave and pulvinated frieze, alongside a coved cornice. The room to the right contains a further fireplace with a moulded surround and the left room retains a 17th-century fireplace with an ogee, hollow-moulded surround and a four-centred head. A rear winder stair features an early to mid-18th century panelled dado. The first-floor bedroom on the right also retains a 17th-century ashlar fireplace with an ogee and ovolo-moulded surround, a four-centred head, and a mantelshelf. The centre and left rooms of the first floor have moulded cornices, and the left room now incorporates panelled doors and a fireplace with a moulded architrave and pulvinated frieze.

Historically, in the 17th century the house was the birthplace and home of the Puritan preacher William Prynne, who was responsible for the condemnation of Archbishop Laud.