Hill House Farmhouse

Hill House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and coped gables. It features a ridge stack and a pair of diagonal stacks at the south end. The building has an L-plan and is one and a half storeys high.

The east front has two dormer gables; the one on the left has a four-light window breaking the eaves, with a central king mullion and hoodmould. The dormer on the right has a three-light window above the eaves and a hoodmould. A single-light window is set within the eaves. The ground floor of the east front features a blocked single light with a hood, a four-light window with a king mullion and a hoodmould, two two-light windows with arched-headed lights, and an inserted 20th-century two-light ovolo-moulded window with a hood. A two-storey extension is located at the right end.

The west front has dormer gables on each side, each with a three-light window and a hoodmould, with a single-light upper window to the right. The ground floor contains a single-light window and a two-light recessed chamfered window, the latter featuring an arched head. A segmental-pointed chamfered doorway with a plank door is situated to the right. A north end extension includes a door, while a projecting south-west wing incorporates a ground floor three-light window and a three-light eaves-breaking hipped dormer on the north front. A two-light window with a hood is found on the west end. The south side features a dormer gable with a three-light window and a hoodmould over a stone-tiled lean-to, originally composed of four open bays with timber posts, now infilled, with an inner six-panel door in a chamfered surround and a casement pair to the left. Later Bridgwater tiled outhouses have been added to the south.

The interior originally comprised an open-hall house displaying smoke-blackened timbers, along with a fine 6-panel inserted ceiling, heavily moulded beams, and a large infilled stone fireplace. A segmental-pointed arched doorway leads to a cross passage containing an early 17th-century plank door. The south end room contains a heavily chamfered and stopped spine beam and wall beams, as well as a large elliptical arched stone south end fireplace. A first-floor centre room has a stone fireplace with carved stone arms representing the Snell quartering of Keynell, a marriage recorded in 1510, though the arms were likely inserted in the early 17th century when the house belonged to John Snell.