Greenhill House Westhill

Greenhill House is a detached house, dating from the mid-18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 20th century. A 17th-century cottage was attached and remodelled around 1910. The front of the main house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a hipped stone slate roof and stone stacks. It is two storeys and has an attic over a basement, with a five-window façade. The central doorway has six fielded panels and an Adam-style transom light within a bolection moulded architrave, topped by a flat stone hood supported on brackets. There are two 18-pane sashes either side of the door, with a segmental pediment over the inner sash and a plain pediment over the outer. Two mullioned casements are positioned at basement level on either side. A plat band runs along the first floor, above which are five 18-pane sashes in moulded architraves; pilasters rise to a wide coved eaves cornice. Three hipped attic dormers each feature a two-light casement. The attached cottage, remodelled around 1910 for E.H.J. Leslie, has three-light and four-light ovolo-mullioned casements to the ground, first, and gabled attic floors. The right return of the main house features beaded mullioned casements. The rear of the main house has a gabled wing added in 1912, also with beaded mullioned casements. It is built onto the rear gable of a 18th-century stair turret, which contains a beaded cross window and mullioned casements. A chamfered mullioned basement window and a cross window to the first floor are visible on the right return of the main building.

Inside, the room to the right of the entrance has full raised panelling, a round-arched opening to the foot of the stairs, doors with two fielded panels in bolection-moulded architraves, a stone bolection-moulded fireplace on the rear wall, and window shutters with fielded panels. The room to the left of the entrance is similarly panelled, with a shell-headed niche containing a tromp l'oeil effect, a fireplace featuring a dentil cornice and egg and dart moulded surround and overmantel. The staircase leading to the attic has two turned balusters per open string tread; the treads have recessed moulded panels to the risers, with square newels to a wide ramped handrail and a panelled dado. The basement has a stone vaulted roof and was formerly used as kitchens. The dining room of the wing features good 17th-century-style panelling and a fireplace, all dating to around 1910; some of this panelling is said to have originated from Bristol.

The house was enlarged and extended by E.H.J. Leslie around 1910. Westhill, a cottage built in a 17th-century style and added to the left of the front to match the right-hand wing (and now a separate dwelling), features ovolo-mullioned casements and a gabled roof. Formal gardens were laid out across the road by Leslie.