Hill Top

SO 7226-7326 12/142

NEWENT CLEEVE MILL LANE (east side) Hill Top

II

Detached house; first half and probably late C17, altered C19 and C20. Timber-framed, brick nogging; Sussex-bond brick in part of third bay; thatched roof. 3-bay, 1½ storeys. Entrance front: left bay narrower, main posts and timber framing to top of wall exposed, brick below with late C20 glazed door. Main beams, as elsewhere, tenoned through posts or studs. To right brace to wallplate; brick section covering timber-framing, exposed internally. Exposed stud and main post, late C20 French door between, 2-light casement in dormer over. 2-panel high timber- framing with duplicate main post up to projecting chimney breast; remainder of third bay and right return brick. Left return timber-framed, half covered by early C20 extension (not of special interest). Roof half-hipped left, swept over dormer, gable on right. Brick chimney on ridge, to right of dormer. Rear wall exposed timber-framing, 3 panels high. Internally large stone fireplace central room with timber lintel. Two-bay timber-framed house, gable chimney, enlarged 1 bay in timber-framing, latter partly rebuilt in brickwork C19.

Listing NGR: SO7311526365