Hillside

Hillside is a house located on Bristol Grove Road in Coombe Dingle, believed to have been built around the early 19th century, specifically around 1805. It was extended in the early 19th century and remodelled in the 1830s. The building is constructed of rendered stone and features a concrete pantile roof with deep eaves supported by paired soffit brackets, as well as rendered axial stacks.

The house has a main rectangular range on the northeast side with a central entrance and stair hall, and a service wing at the rear left. A single bay extension was added to the southwest side around 1815, and the house was remodelled in the 1830s, during which the main block was raised and its windows were altered.

The exterior consists of two storeys and attics, with a symmetrical three-bay southeast front for the main range and a lower two-storey, one-bay extension to the left. The main range features large three-light wooden mullion-transom windows with small panes; the glazing bars have been removed from the ground floor windows. There are hoodmoulds above the windows and a central rendered porch with a hipped slate roof, which has deep eaves. The porch contains a four-centred arch doorway with glazed double doors and fielded-panel inner doors. The lower extension on the left has a Bath stone bay window on the ground floor, complete with an entablature and pilasters, and a 16-pane sash window above. There is also a small single-storey range on the left.

On the northeast return, there is a 20th-century bay window on the ground floor, two three-light mullion-transom windows on the first floor (with the left window replaced), and a small three-light attic window under the eaves. The rear of the house features various three-light casements, mullion-transom windows, and sashes with glazing bars, while the right wing has two-light stone windows with Tudor arch lights and metal casements.

Inside, much of the early 19th-century joinery remains, including a well-crafted open-well staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail that ramps up to column newels. The stick balusters have been replaced with splat balusters. There are panelled doors with moulded architraves, some of which have later overdoors. Some of the chimneypieces have been replaced with 18th-century types, and some on the first floor still have their original iron grates.