Hill House

Hill House is a country house, now serving as a religious retreat, built in the mid-18th century for the Everard family. The structure is made of coursed and squared rubble with roughcast, featuring a plinth band, moulded strings at the sill levels, a plain band at the first floor level, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with plain coping. The roof is felted with brick stacks.

The building has a symmetrical garden frontage and is two storeys tall with attics, arranged in a 2:1:2 bay configuration. It includes 12-pane sash windows, with the central bay projecting forward under an open pediment. The first floor window is highlighted by a dressed stone surround and a moulded stone cornice supported by brackets, with an heraldic achievement below it.

There is a central Venetian door opening framed by a moulded stone surround with pilasters on either side, flanked by 8-pane sashes and featuring a central half-glazed door with a fanlight and an emphasised keystone, all topped by a cornice. Each return has a shallow two-storey segmental bow window with sash windows that have glazing bars and crenellated parapets.

Inside, the left ground floor room boasts an elaborate plaster ceiling in the Adam style, while the right ground floor room features a fireplace with an early 19th-century fluted marble surround. The hall includes a screen of columns and a co-eval staircase, along with further fine co-eval fireplaces on the first floor. The outbuildings and 20th-century alterations to the rear are not of special interest.