Hill House

Hill House is a building that is said to date from around 1700, but it was probably built for Edward Andrews around 1743. It features ashlar stonework and a hipped slate roof, presenting a well-proportioned three-storey façade. The front has five windows and a central porch. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, set within moulded architraves, and each has a panelled apron below. The central window above the door is semi-circular-headed with a keystone, flanked by Ionic pilasters that support a triangular pediment. The window above this has Corinthian pilasters and a segmental pediment. The porch is solid, featuring Roman Doric pilasters that support a flat entablature with a blocking course and a triglyph frieze. The door opening has a square-headed architrave. The building has channelled end pilasters, a moulded string course at the first and second floor levels, a moulded cornice, and a plain parapet with coping. The garden front is simpler, with one arched window in the centre of the first floor, and also has a hipped slate roof. There is a two-storey, three-window early 19th-century wing to the south, featuring glazing bar sashes set in reveals and moulded panels between floors, along with a plain first-floor band, astragal cornice, and parapet. The south elevation has blind articulation and an arcaded ground floor. Inside, there is a good staircase and panelled ground floor rooms, with raised and fielded panels on the shutters of the earlier part and fielded panels on the shutters of the later part.