Hillway Cottage Including Walls, Steps And Terraces Hillway House Including Walls, Steps And Terraces

Hillway Cottage and Hillway House are a large house with an attached gardener's cottage, now in separate ownership, built in 1924 by Arthur J Penty for Mr A J Rowley. They are constructed of narrow handmade bricks in a variant of English Garden Wall bond, with tiled roofs and brick chimneystacks, and feature oak framed windows.

Hillway House has a north front of two storeys and six windows, with a blank section on the ground floor to the left. It includes mullioned oak windows with leaded lights and decorative iron catches, a hipped roof, and four brick chimneystacks. A central doorcase has a shouldered stone architrave, two stone steps, and an oak door, with a 1924 datestone above. A one-story service wing extends to the west, ending in a gable. The south, or garden, front is more elaborate, incorporating mainly two- or three-light mullions to the first floor and mullioned and transomed windows to the ground floor. There are projecting, two-story, six-light bay windows to the left and right of a central doorcase. Attached to the southeast corner is a one-story, open-sided projection with wooden balustrading.

The interior of Hillway House remains remarkably unaltered, featuring a built-in oak cupboard in the entrance hall, an enclosed staircase with an open grille, a stone fire surround with a metal firegrate, and a herringbone brick floor. The lounge has a built-in windowseat and stone fireplace with a brick round-headed opening, with a similar, less elaborate, fireplace in the dining room. A built-in wardrobe is located in the main bedroom, along with a laundry cupboard. Original oak doors and floorboards are found throughout.

Attached to the south side of Hillway House are steps, brick terrace walls, a pergola with four brick piers, and brick and stone paths. On the north front, further brick and stone paths, terrace walls, and three sets of steps culminate in brick semi-circular features. One path leads to a wooden gate flanked by brick piers with pyramidal stone caps and an iron overthrow, with eight stone steps featuring brick risers on the roadside. A section of attached walling connects the house to Hillway Cottage, which is built of identical materials and is two storeys with two windows and a central chimneystack. It has C20 casements within original oak mullions, a right-side doorcase under a penticed tiled hood on brackets.

The architect illustrated features from Hillway House in his 1930 book "The Elements of Domestic Design," demonstrating a remarkable adherence to the tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement at a late date.