Top House

Top House is a house built around 1830-1840, likely designed by Paxton and Robertson, in the Italianate style. It features coursed squared sandstone and ashlar with a stone slate roof that is hipped to the east and has overhanging eaves supported by paired brackets. The house has an ashlar ridge stack with panelled sides, a plain eaves band, and a plain ground floor sill band and first floor band on the eastern part.

The house is two storeys high. The south elevation includes a flat-roofed porch on the left, which is terminated by a stone pier topped with a pyramid cap. The doorway has a plain stone surround and a panelled door. To the right of the porch, there is a three-light window with three round arches and raised ashlar surrounds. Above this, there is a similar two-light window. On the eastern side, there is a polygonal bay that has a single square window on each floor, both with raised ashlar surrounds. Additionally, there is a row of three round-arched lights and a pair of similar windows above.

Top House was built as part of the picturesque model village created by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire and incorporates remains of an older house on the western side.