Hill House (West)

Hill House (West) is a house dating primarily from around 1800 to 1820, although a rear section may incorporate earlier fabric. The front of the house is built of stuccoed stone rubble and cob, while the rear range has a hipped slate roof. The front range has a gabled slate roof and a brick stack at the right end.

The house is larger than it initially appears, consisting of two parallel ranges. The front range has a single heated room to the right of the former entrance passage, which has been opened up. The upper storey extends over a carriageway on the left. Originally, a passageway ran through a short range connecting the front and rear ranges, and through the second range, which contains a kitchen and a parlour. A flat-roofed stairwell is situated between the two ranges, extending beyond the front range. An additional two-storey gable-ended section at the right end of the rear range provides access to the rear garden and contains coal and store sheds.

The front of the house has three windows, all with 12-pane hornless sashes. A shallow canopy, supported by decorative brackets, covers the doorway. A canted bay window with a dentilled cornice and a 12-pane sash with 4-pane sidelights is on the right. Double plank doors lead to the carriage entrance on the left.

The interior retains much of its early 19th-century joinery. The open well staircase has a moulded string, handrail, and stick balusters with turned newels. A moulded plaster cornice and a ceiling rose are in the stairwell ceiling. Decorative moulded plaster cornices are in the right-hand room of the rear range. Most doorways are round-arched, with unmoulded timber architraves. The roof structure of the front range is a king-post design with dovetailed raking struts and pegged A-frame trusses, while the rear range has lapped collars.