Hilltop Cottage

APPLETON-LE-STREET CONEYSTHORPE TO MALTON SE 77 SW WITH EASTHORPE ROAD (north side, off) Easthorpe 4/12 Hilltop cottage - II Shown on Ordnance Survey map as Easthorpe Farm. Farmhouse; now house, with attached smithy and barn. Mid - late C18; C20 alteration and extension. Dressed sandstone, the upper half of the front and left gable wall rendered; pantile roof with rebuilt brick stack. Originally 2-cell, direct-entry plan with opposed doors; forge and barn attached to right. 2-storey, 3-window front, with single storey extension set back to left. Disused board house door to right of centre, with board smithy door and part-slatted window to right, all under continuous painted timber lintel. C20 board door in extension. Ground-floor windows are a 3-light, large-pane casement to left of 2-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash. 2-light, small-pane horizontal-sliding sash to first floor left, a small-pane casement to centre and fixed light to right. Timber lintels to all openings. Coped gable and shaped kneeler to left. Centre left stack. Rear: outshut under catslide roof. Forge stack at base of roof to left of outshut. Interior: ground- floor room to left has roughly chamfered bressummer over fireplace. The brick forge survives in the smithy.

Listing NGR: SE7330271663