Attached Walls, Railings And Privy To Numbers 28 And 28A Hillside Wellsway

This is a house, originally one dwelling but now divided into two separate homes, Numbers 28 and 28A Hillside Wellsway, built in the 17th century and significantly altered in the early 19th century. The front facade is constructed from finely dressed Ham Hill stone ashlar, while the sides and rear are built of coursed limestone rubble. The roof is double-pitched and hipped, covered in slate, and features brick stacks at each end of the ridge and on the end walls.

The building presents a symmetrical facade with five windows across two storeys. The ground floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes, and the first-floor windows are 3/6-pane sashes, all set within rendered reveals. A Regency-style doorcase sits centrally, featuring reeded jambs and lintel, roundel blocks, and a projecting cornice. Number 28 (Wellsway) occupies the right-hand two bays and right return, which features three 20th-century windows on the first floor, a 20th-century garage entrance, and an 1840 six-panel door with glazed upper panels, panelled reveals, and a 20th-century porch.

Inside Number 28A (Hillside), a stone-flagged hall leads to an open-well staircase with a swept mahogany rail, stick balusters, and a turned newel, topped by a skylight with margin panes and diagonal bars. The ground floor has 6-panel doors with added reeded moulding. Regency-style fire surrounds with late 19th-century grates are found on the ground floor, while mid-19th century cast-iron arch-plate register grates and 4-panel doors are on the first floor. The cellar has a lias stone-flagged floor with a drainage channel, two chamfered cross beams; the beam to the right has wrought-iron hooks and rests on a lower axial beam. A heavy chamfered beam supporting rough joists and wide limewashed hardwood boards is against the rear right-hand corner which adjoins Number 28. An exposed roof truss to the right displays a king post with diagonal struts. The interior of Number 28 was not inspected during the listing process.

Attached to the right (south-west) corner is a Ham Hill rubble stone revetment wall, which steps down to the left, enclosing a front garden and supporting spearhead railings with urn finials. Double gates provide access near the house, leading to steps up to the garden. A high Flemish-bond brick wall with a rubble stone outer face and Ham Hill stone coping runs along the left-hand side of the house, enclosing a rear garden approximately 30 meters square. A rubble stone privy stands in the rear right-hand corner of this garden.