Hillside Farmhouse With Attached Outbuildings

Hillside Farmhouse with attached outbuildings is a mid-to-late 17th-century farmhouse, with later extensions to the right. The farmhouse is built of rubble with stone slate roofs. It is two storeys high, with eight first-floor windows. An outshut is located behind the first two bays.

The original section of the farmhouse, the first bay, has a stepped plinth with a small, cellar-like window opening. Quoins are visible on the left side. To the right of the entrance is a board door set within a chamfered ashlar surround. The original windows are double-chamfered mullions; the ground floor has windows of four lights with a central king mullion, while the first floor has windows of three lights. Ashlar coping is present on the left side, and a chimney sits above the front door.

The second to sixth bays have quoins on the right side. The ground floor features a 12-pane window with a slab sill and lintel, followed by a six-pane sash window, a 20th-century stable door to the kitchen (with a deep lintel), a board door to a cow byre, and a six-pane casement window with a slab sill and lintel. The first floor mirrors the ground floor, with a six-pane sash window, then another six-pane sash window, followed by three 20th-century sash windows, all with slab sills and lintels. The seventh and eighth bays also feature quoins on the right side. The ground floor has a board door to a garage (formerly a cart-shed) within a segmental-arched opening, and a 20th-century slatted door below a deep lintel to a former stable. The first floor contains a six-pane window below a deep lintel, and a small single-light window with a slab lintel.

The left return shows watershot stonework and a ground-floor three-light double-chamfered mullion window, likely an insertion. The outshut has a chamfered single-light window. The right return displays stone steps leading to a first-floor board door on the stable, while the outshut has a chamfered single-light window on each floor, with continuous jambs between the two windows.

The interior includes an inglenook fireplace in the ground-floor room on the extreme left. The original bressumer has been cut short and used as corbels, with a later beam inserted above. A bread oven is located to the left, with a salt box at the rear. An 18th-century ashlar fireplace, with richly-moulded corbels over pilaster-like jambs, is also present in this room – it was found in the garden, possibly removed from the dining room in the second bay when a parlour was created there. There are stop-chamfered beams throughout. A stone staircase of a twisting open-well plan is also in the outshut; it may have been originally external. A further eighteenth-century ashlar moulded fireplace exists in a first-floor room on the extreme left. The first floor is now continuous over the entire range, with 19th-century open roof trusses over the third to sixth bays, and a 19th-century king-post truss over the seventh and eighth bays.