Hill View

Hill View is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The house is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, with a thatched roof featuring a plain ridge and gable ends. A rendered stack is present at the right end, while a stack at the left end was demolished and a front lateral hall stack, with brick offsets, was heightened.

The original plan is obscured by subsequent alterations, particularly in the 20th century. Two early 17th-century trusses over the right end suggest the house initially comprised a two-room plan with a hall heated by a front lateral stack to the left of a possible former cross-passage and a lower end to the right. In the late 17th century, it appears the house was extended to the left, forming a third room and reversing the plan, relocating the passage to the left of the hall. The functions of the end rooms are unclear; the room beyond the hall at the right end has served as a kitchen since at least the 19th century, while the room at the left end, though panelled on one wall, retains evidence of a former smoking chamber to the left of the fireplace. Around the early 19th century, the house was divided into two occupations. In the 20th century, a secondary staircase was removed from the rear of the kitchen at the right end, and the passage was widened by encroaching on the room at the left end to create a wide entrance hall. A new principal staircase was also installed in the 20th century. A single-story addition has been made to the outshut at the rear.

The exterior features a 2-story, 4-window range with early 19th-century windows, all being 3-light casements with small rectangular leaded panes. A shallow veranda with a slate roof extends to the left and right of, and in line with, the front lateral stack, supported on 20th-century timber posts and incorporating a 20th-century entrance porch towards the left end with a door surround in 17th-century style. A 3-light casement was inserted into a blocked doorway towards the right end.

Internally, the house has undergone significant 20th-century alterations. Some late 17th-century panelling, likely resited, remains in the room at the left end, extending to the full height of the inner partition wall, 3 1/2 panels high with scratch-moulded stiles and rails, including a panelled door with H-L hinges. A chamfered fireplace lintel is also present. A cupboard to the left contains ceiling meat-hooks and was likely used as a smoking chamber. A single chamfered cross-ceiling beam remains in the hall; the hall fireplace was rebuilt in the 20th century. A 17th-century ovolo-moulded 4-centred arched door surround is visible to the small single-story outshut at the rear right end, and may have been reused. The roof contains two raised cruck trusses over the right end with two tiers of threaded purlins, the morticed and tenoned collars having been removed; there is no evidence of smoke-blackening. Three trusses over the left end have straight principals and pegged lapped collars.