Hillwood House, Harvest Road

Hillwood House is a two-storey, three-bay villa built in the late 19th century. It is rectangular in plan and constructed from coursed whinstone with yellow sandstone dressings for margins, quoins, and a base and eaves cornice. Chamfered arrises are a feature of the design.

The south elevation, the main facade, is three bays wide. A central entrance is accessed by stone steps and features a heavy doorcase with deep-set door and consoles supporting a cornice. A window sits above the entrance at the first floor level. A full-height canted window is located to the right, while a pair of windows are positioned at ground and first floor level to the left.

The north elevation presents a three-bay main block, with a later, lower gabled scullery extension added at the centre. A round-headed stair window is positioned centrally, partially obscured by the scullery wing. Windows are symmetrically disposed on the left and right sides at both ground and first floor levels; the ground-floor window to the right is barred. A boarded door with a plate-glass fanlight is located on the left return of the scullery extension, with a similar door on the outer right. A bipartite, barred window is on the right return, and a smaller barred window is on the left return. An attic window is centrally located in the gablehead, with two smaller windows at ground floor level to the left.

The east elevation has windows at the outer left and right at the first floor. The west elevation features a barred window centrally on the ground floor, a first-floor window centrally, and a shouldered stack directly above. A blocked door is situated to the right of the ground floor window.

Plate-glass sash and case windows, some with four panes, are fitted throughout. The stair window has leaded glass with a frosted border design. The roof is grey slate, with a piend and platform design, and an external whinstone, coped, shoulder wallhead stack featuring sandstone quoins. Ashlar coping defines the skews of the scullery gable, and roll moulding is present at the apex.

The interior includes a simple staircase with a narrow cast-iron balustrade and a wooden handrail. Cornices feature anthemion and patera motifs, and colonnettes are present at the angle of the bay window.

To the east of the house are a coach-house and stables, also constructed from whinstone with sandstone dressings. They have a two-leaf boarded door with a plate-glass letterbox fanlight at the centre, and a slate-hung piended hoist door above. A window sits immediately to the left of the door, followed by a two-leaf boarded cart door to the outer left, and a window to the outer right. Another window is located on the right return. The roof is grey slate, and the interior is cobbled with cast-iron columns.