Outbuilding, Hilton Farmhouse, Whitsome

Mid 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan former farmhouse advanced at centre with kneelered gable; 2-storey, gabled addition at rear forming L-plan; later single storey porch at rear in re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone; polished and droved sandstone dressings; rubble sandstone at rear. Raised base course; droved rubble quoins (chamfered corners to central bay). Tooled rubble long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings; sandstone mullions to bipartites; projecting cills; moulded skewputts. Harled porch at rear. Red brick and rubble-faced walled garden to W. Single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding to NW.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: recessed, part-glazed timber panelled door centred at ground; 2-pane fanlight; bracketed canopy above; single window at 1st floor centred below decorative kneelered gablehead; surmounting gablehead stack. Bipartite windows at ground in bays recessed to left and right; single windows aligned at 1st floor.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: gabled bay to outer right with single window at ground off-set to left of centre. 2-storey, 2-bay addition to outer left with bipartite window at ground in bay to right; single window above; single windows at both floors in bay to outer left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled addition advanced to outer right with replacement window centred at ground; single window at 1st floor. Lean-to porch in re-entrant angle to left; stair window above; small single window in bay to left. Single window at 1st floor in bay to outer left.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (18-pane to stair light). Grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; moulded skewputts to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded cope to sandstone stack above entrance gable; rendered ridge and apex stacks to sides and rear; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

WALLED GARDEN: rectangular-plan walled garden to W. Predominantly red brick facing to inner walls (coped tooled red sandstone to E). Square-plan gatepiers centred in W wall; corniced sandstone caps; surmounting pyramidal bases (missing finials); gateway blocked. Wrought-iron pedestrian entrance gate accessing road.

OUTBUILDING: part-harled brick and rubble sandstone. Single boarded timber doors in S and E elevations. Grey slate piended roof; brick wallhead stack to E. INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: random rubble wall enclosing site to N; splayed random rubble walls flanking entrance. Corniced coursed sandstone, circular-plan gatepiers; surmounting ball-shaped finials; wrought-iron gates.