Hill House And Adjoining Shippon And Detached Kitchen 5 Metres To South

LOXHORE SS 63 NW 4/129 Hill House and adjoining shippon 25.2.65 and detached kitchen 5 metres to 1.11.74 south

GV II*

Farmhouse, now house with adjoining shippon and detached kitchen. Farmhouse C16. Shippon and detached kitchen C17, all remodelled in late C20. House of whitewashed rubble and cob with asbestos slate roof, shippon and detached kitchen of rubble with slate roofs. House has stack heating inner room at left gable end and large axial stack with drip backing onto through-passage in well preserved 3 cell open hall plan. No division between passage and lower end, which may have been the byre of a longhouse, originally open to the roof. The hall remarkably still remains open to the roof while the inner room appears to have been floored over in C17. Single storey hall between each end with attic storey. 3-window range to south-side. C20 2-light casements. The hall and upper end ground floor windows have been pushed out under a single narrow slated lean-to canopy. Through-passage doorway to right with C19 doorframe and plank door with middle rail. 2 rounded rubble projections to rear, the smaller one for bread oven to axial stack, the large one to eaves height is the stair turret, both later additions. C17 stair turret doorway in hall has thin chamfered jambs and segmental head. Roof is carried on 2 pairs of partially exposed raised crucks with trenched purlins. Shippon adjoins at lower gable end, converted into part of dwelling. Stone buttress at left end and external stone steps to front with C20 windows inserted in door opening on each floor. Detached kitchen to rear with former byre at left gable end both now converted into single dwellings, joined to Hill House by courtyard walls of rubble. Short brick shaft at right gable end to rubble stack with pronounced batter. Courtyard side has openings above and to left of plank door. South-side has 3-window range of C20 casements and buttress towards upper end. (E. Mercer, English Vernacular Houses, 1975).

Listing NGR: SS6216937842