Hill House Nursing Home Including Front Wall And Gate Piers

Hill House Nursing Home, which includes the front wall and gate piers, is a detached house now serving as a nursing home. It dates back to the 16th or 17th century, with alterations made in the 17th or 18th century and further changes in the mid-19th century. The building features solid rendered walls and a tiled roof adorned with crested ridge-tiles. There are three old red-brick chimneys on the main range to the right, a small rendered chimney on the left end wall of the secondary range to the left, and a large stone rubble chimney on the rear wall of the main range.

The house is two storeys high and the main range is six windows wide. At the left end of the ground floor, there is a doorway with a trellised wood porch and a six-panelled door, where the two bottom panels are flush with panelled reveals. The windows are fitted with wood and iron casements; the iron casements have three and four lights with leaded glazing and are found on all ground-storey windows, as well as the first second-storey window on the left and the first two on the right. The wood casements consist of two lights with four panes per light. A deep flat eaves-cornice supported by paired brackets runs along the main range. The secondary range is three windows wide and features small-paned wood casements in both the ground and upper storeys, with the two right-hand upper-storey windows having gables with plain bargeboards.

In the front garden, there is an old stone rubble retaining wall with two square rendered gate piers that have flat moulded caps. The wall turns up Mathill Road at the right-hand end, in front of the end wall of the house, and this section has a chamfered coping made of stones set on edge.

Inside, the building has chamfered ceiling beams and an early 18th-century staircase with fluted columns, although it has been truncated and only a small section remains on the ground floor. There is a 1587 fireback in the sitting room and fragments of a plank muntin screen. The roof has been raised and features trusses that are characteristic of the 18th century.