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

Hill House is a farmhouse, now a house, with an adjoining shippon and a detached kitchen located 5 metres to the south. The farmhouse dates back to the 16th century, while the shippon and detached kitchen were built in the 17th century, with later remodelling in the late 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of whitewashed rubble and cob, with an asbestos slate roof, while the shippon and detached kitchen are of rubble with slate roofs.

The farmhouse features a stack heating the inner room at the left gable end and a large axial stack with a drip backing onto the through-passage, reflecting a well-preserved three-cell open hall plan. There is no division between the passage and the lower end, which may originally have been the byre of a longhouse and open to the roof. The hall remains open to the roof, while the inner room was apparently floored over in the 17th century. A single storey hall lies between each end, with an attic storey above. The south side has a three-window range featuring 20th-century two-light casements. The hall and upper-end ground floor windows have been altered with a single, narrow slated lean-to canopy. A through-passage doorway on the right has a 19th-century doorframe and a plank door with a middle rail.

Two rounded rubble projections are located at the rear - a smaller one housing a bread oven against the axial stack, and a larger one, rising to eaves height, which is a stair turret, both later additions. A 17th-century stair turret doorway in the hall has thin, chamfered jambs and a segmental head. The roof is supported by two pairs of partially exposed raised crucks with trenched purlins.

The shippon adjoins the farmhouse at the lower gable end and has been converted into living space. A stone buttress is present at the left end, and external stone steps lead to the front, with 20th-century windows inserted into the former door opening on each floor. The detached kitchen, located to the rear, includes a former byre at the left gable end, both now converted into single dwellings and joined to Hill House by courtyard walls of rubble. A short brick shaft, with pronounced batter to a rubble stack, is at the right gable end. The courtyard side has openings above and to the left of a plank door. The south side of the detached kitchen has a three-window range of 20th-century casements and a buttress towards the upper end.