Nos 1, 2 And 3 Hillview

Nos 1, 2, and 3 Hillview comprise a group of three cottages situated in Kentisbeare. No. 1 may originate from the early 16th century, while No. 2 is likely a rebuilding from the 18th or early 19th century, and No. 3 dates to the late 17th century. The cottages are constructed of roughcast cob, with gable ends covered in slate and concrete pantile roofing. They form an L-shaped arrangement, all of single-depth construction. No. 1 contains two rooms and features jointed crucks, and is divided from No. 2 by a cob wall, which may have originally been an end wall. No. 2 has been rebuilt, with later purlins visible from a first-floor room in No. 1, and extends into a rear wing. No. 3 appears to be entirely of late 17th-century origin.

Architecturally, Nos 1 and 2 (facing south) have a three-window range to the front, with first-floor casement windows of three lights (two to No. 1), and three ground-floor windows plus two doorways. The doorway to No. 1 has deeply recessed, boarded reveals and a small 19th-century canopy on shaped brackets. A small, pegged window frame is situated in the left-hand gable end of No. 1, providing light to the stairs alongside a former external end stack. The right-hand gable end of No. 2 has a 20th-century window. The front of No. 3 features two first-floor 19th-century two-light casement windows and a central 20th-century timber porch on the ground floor, with two-light casement windows either side. The rear of the cottages has various extensions, including catslide roof outshuts, lean-tos, and some 19th-century casement windows.

The interior of No. 1 includes two jointed crucks; one dividing the rooms, potentially an original partition, and another near the end of the house. An enormous bressumer morticed into the lower blade of the second cruck acts as both an end fireplace lintel and an arched head beam to the stairway. The left-hand room has axial ceiling beams, chamfered with hollow step stops. No. 3 has straight roof principals and chamfered, unstopped ceiling beams. The roof space is inaccessible. The roof timbers in No. 1 are reportedly smoke-blackened, which could be due to seepage from the end stack. Internal end stacks heat Nos 1 and 2, which also share an axial stack; Nos 2 and 3 share an axial stack, with brick shafts throughout.