Hillside View

Hillside View is a house, likely dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and early to mid-19th centuries. It is built of rendered walls, probably over stone rubble or cob, and has a scantle-slate roof that is gable-ended on the left and hipped on the right. There is a 17th-century stone stack at the rear and a brick stack to the left.

The original plan was probably a three-room layout with a through-passage. It may have started as a late Medieval open hall house, comprising a hall with a projecting shallow square bay to the front, a wide through-passage, and a former service room (now the kitchen) to the left, and a former inner room to the right. It was likely originally open to the roof. Possible 17th-century alterations included the addition of a first floor to the hall and an integral lateral stack at the rear of the hall. The projecting square bay may have been part of the original plan or could be an alteration from the 17th or early to mid-19th centuries. A 19th-century staircase is located in the cross passage, and the roof was rebuilt in the 17th century. A wall between the hall and inner room was removed in the 20th century.

The two-storey front has an asymmetrical three-window arrangement. There are 19th-century three-light wooden casements on each floor to the left and right, and the projecting bay features an early 19th-century sixteen-pane glazing bar sash window on the first floor (with four lights across and two up), and a mid to late 19th-century boxed four-pane sash window on the ground floor. A 20th-century half-glazed door is situated between the first and second windows from the left. The right-hand end wall has 19th-century three-light wooden casements to each floor.

The interior's central ground-floor room (the hall) features a cased cross beam and a window seat. The wall between the hall and inner room was removed in the 20th century. There are 18th-century four-panelled doors to rooms off the through-passage, with L-hinges. Fragmentary remains of a rear cruck blade (embedded in the left-hand stack) are visible at the lower end of the hall, along with trenches for former purlins and a notch at the apex for a former diagonally-set ridge-piece. The apex was formerly mortise and tenoned. The remainder of the roof was rebuilt in the 17th century, with trusses consisting of principal rafters and collars.