Sidney Hill Cottage Homes And Attached Gatepiers, Walls And Gates

Sidney Hill Cottage Homes, built in 1907, are Wesleyan almshouses designed by Silcock and Reay. The cottages are constructed of brick with some stone copings and feature plain tile roofs, with wrought iron gates. The layout is U-shaped, consisting of 12 cottages in the Arts and Crafts Vernacular style, each with one storey and attics. The windows are three-light wooden casements with small leaded panes, and those in the attic are located under gables. The doorways are Tudor-arched, with plank doors and flat hoods supported by carved consoles. Tall brick stacks rise from the buildings, and there is an open hexagonal wooden cupola above the central entrance archway. The north front displays the Hill family crest above the entrance arch.

The boundary walls are made of brick with a limestone mid-course and stone copings, standing 2 metres high. Ornamental stone vases are placed at intervals on the piers, which include central gatepiers at the north entrance that are 2.5 metres high with renewed ball finials. The entrance features two-leaf wrought iron gates with a decorative overthrow, along with single leaf gates at the east and west corners, and additional central two-leaf gates on the south boundary wall, which have pineapple finials on the piers. The almshouses were funded by Sidney Hill of Langford House and were inspired by the painting "Harbour of Refuge" created in 1872 by Frederick Walker, which is now housed in the Tate Gallery.