West Hill House

West Hill House, together with No.8 Quarr Barton, is a cottage and house, initially dating from the 17th century with substantial additions and alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The front range was built in 1705. The construction is of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Notable features include large gable stacks – one of rubble and one of ashlar – along with several lateral and rear gable stacks. The rear range has a pantile roof, while the front range has a slate roof. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan, incorporating a 17th-century cottage within a later rear range and a front range of 1705.

The principal façade is symmetrical and includes quoins, a timber modillion cornice gutter, and a large rubble stack set in from the left-hand gable. There's a ground-floor string course and a timber bracketed pediment over the front door, which is half-glazed. Early 19th-century 6/6-pane sash windows are set within bolection-moulded architraves. Two gabled dormers are visible. A lead hopper and downpipe with joint clips inscribed "H/IP/1705" are noteworthy details. The rear range has a half-hipped gable and a 20th-century casement window.

The left-hand return has a recessed rear section with ground- and first-floor strings and a coved cornice, with a late 19th-century ashlar porch situated in the angle. To the right, a large lateral stack features a half gable, a first-floor window with a label mould, and a straight joint with the front range.

The rear cottage displays a timber lintel from an earlier ground-floor window, the exposed end of a principal rafter, and later label moulds over a Tudor-arched door and a 3-light mullion window with reserved chamfers. A 19th-century gabled casement dormer is also present. The rear elevation has a large lateral stack and a wide 17th-century door.

The interior features an L-shaped cellar partly cut into bedrock; a heavy lateral beam with bracketed ends supported by a turned timber post; and a cyma-moulded mullion window to the side. A ground-floor room on the left has a large fireplace with a bressumer and a left-hand niche, alongside 17th-century scratch-moulded panelling. The right-hand room features complete early 20th-century panelling and a marble fireplace. A central early 18th-century dogleg staircase has column-on-vase balusters and an uncut string. Further rear rooms contain raised panelling. The first floor includes a front room with early 18th-century panelling, overmantel and a timber fire surround with fluted columns, along with a right-hand staircase. The rear cottage has a large fireplace, chamfered axial and lateral floor beams, a later inserted staircase, and two sling-brace trusses, one of which is incorporated into the rear party wall with No.12 Quarr Barton.