Hillside Longhope Cottage

Hillside Longhope Cottage is a pair of adjoining cottages that were formerly a tenement farmhouse. The building has early 16th century fabric and was remodeled in the late 16th or early 17th century. It was divided into two separate residences in the 20th century. The exterior is made of rendered stone rubble and cob. The left cottage has a slate roof that was renewed around 1980, while the right cottage features a slate roof at the front and a corrugated iron roof at the rear. There are stacks at each gable end, with the right stack having offsets, and a front lateral stack that is the former hall stack for Longhope Cottage, topped with a tall rendered shaft.

Originally, the structure was a three-room through-passage open hall house, but the through-passage has now been incorporated into the hall, and the rear doorway has been blocked. A partition was added at the lower end of the hall to create two cottages, with a doorway inserted in the center of the inner room to serve as the entrance to the right-hand cottage. The building is two storeys high and features a three-window range of 19th and 20th century two-light casements, with three panes per light on the right side and 20th century casements on the right. There are two two-light casements with six panes per light flanking a 20th century flat-roofed porch on the left, and a 20th century two-light casement to the right of a four-panelled door to Hillside, where the upper two panels are glazed.

At the rear, there is a two-storey outshut to Hillside, which has two-light casements made with old bottle glass. Inside, there is a single wide chamfered hollow stepped stop ceiling beam in the room to the left of the former through-passage. The hall fireplace has a timber lintel that is partially plastered over. The ground floor room of Hillside features 19th century joinery and dado matchboarding, along with a corner cupboard. Access to the roof is available only from Longhope Cottage, where a solid cob partition rises to the apex of the roof between the hall and the room to the left. This area has two 18th or early 19th century trusses over the hall, featuring X apex and side-pegged collars, while reusing some of the original smoke-blackened purlins. The cob partition and the change in first floor levels suggest that the upper end may have always been ceiled, indicating that the hall itself was originally open to the roof before being floored over later.