Hilltop Cottage

Hilltop Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, located in Easthorpe, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Easthorpe Farm. It dates from the mid to late 18th century and has undergone some alterations and extensions in the 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed sandstone, with the upper half of the front and left gable wall rendered. It features a pantile roof with a rebuilt brick stack.

The original layout was a two-cell, direct-entry plan with opposed doors, and it has a forge and barn attached to the right. The front is two stories high with three windows, and there is a single-storey extension set back to the left. To the right of the centre, there is a disused board house door, a board smithy door, and a part-slatted window, all beneath a continuous painted timber lintel. The extension has a 20th-century board door.

On the ground floor, the windows include a three-light, large-pane casement to the left of a two-light, 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash. The first floor has a two-light, small-pane horizontal-sliding sash to the left, a small-pane casement in the centre, and a fixed light to the right. All openings have timber lintels. The left gable features a coped gable and a shaped kneeler, with a stack positioned at the centre left. At the rear, there is an outshut under a catslide roof, and a forge stack is located at the base of the roof to the left of the outshut.

Inside, the ground-floor room to the left has a roughly chamfered bressummer over the fireplace, and the brick forge remains intact in the smithy.