Hillhouses Farmhouse

Hillhouses Farmhouse is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, L-plan, gabled farmhouse. It features stugged coursed and random rubble construction with ashlar dressings, a purple slate roof, and fishscale detailing on the canted windows. The windows are a mix of 4-, 8-, and 12-pane sash and case styles with chamfered margins. The building has a corniced wallhead and gable stacks, coped skews with corbel skewputts on the south elevation, and gables topped with block and ball finials.

On the south elevation, the farmhouse is symmetrical with three bays. The central entrance has a panelled door with an astragalled fanlight, set within a keystoned and margined round-headed doorway. Above, there is a bipartite window on the first floor. The slightly advanced gables on either side feature a canted window at ground level, a single window on the first floor, and a blinded square vent at the gable.

The east elevation has a nepus gable at the centre with a window on the first floor. To the right, there is a ground floor window with a pedimented dormer-headed window above it, and a lean-to structure at the far right that also has a window.

On the north elevation, there is a blank gable advanced on the left with a lean-to at ground level. The right return elevation features a door with an astragalled fanlight and two windows, one on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The main elevation on the right also has a window on both floors.

The west gable includes a ground floor window on the right and a prominent shouldered wallhead stack.

Inside, the farmhouse retains original chimneypieces and some plain moulded cornices, although the staircase appears to have been realigned.

The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls on the south, west, and north sides, with quadrant entrance walls on the west.