Hillside

Hillside is an estate manager's house, likely dating to circa 1849, when Fallapit House was enlarged. A rear extension was added in the late 20th century. The house is constructed of dressed slate rubble with slate dressings. It has a steeply pitched asbestos tile roof with gabled ends, overhanging verges and eaves, and exposed rafter ends. There is a lateral stack at the rear with two rendered diagonally-set shafts, and a stack at the right-hand end with a short brick shaft, both topped with louvred yellow clay pots. The house’s original plan includes a 2-room layout, a central entrance hall featuring a dog-leg staircase, a living room to the right, a parlour to the left, and a cellar below, accessible via an external doorway at the left end where the ground level is lower. A single-story kitchen wing extends from the right-hand living room, which was raised to two stories in the late 20th century to create a third bedroom. The house is designed in a Tudor Gothic style.

The west front is asymmetrical, with two windows. Slightly advanced two-story bays are positioned on the left and right sides, featuring stringcourses; the right-hand bay is gabled, and the main roof extends over the left-hand bay. The original chamfered window openings retain segmental dressed slate arches and weathered sills; the original windows have been replaced with plastic windows. A gabled stone porch with a chamfered two-centred arch and low weathered buttresses provides access to the central doorway, which is approached by a flight of steps. The porch has an inner arch and a plank door. The north end has buttresses with weathered set-offs at the corners, a wide cellar doorway with a chamfered dressed slate segmental arch, and a first-floor window in a similar opening with what appears to be a 19th-century two-light casement with glazing bars. The right end has one small, likely later-inserted, first-floor casement. The rear kitchen wing has been extended to two stories, features a gable-ended roof, and is rendered.

The interior is simple, with a dog-leg staircase featuring stick balusters and a chamfered newel with a moulded cap. Simple four-panel doors are present. The chimneys have been replaced. Hillside was originally built as the estate manager’s house on the Fallapit estate, the seat of the Fortescue family.