Hilton Farmhouse, Whitsome

This is a mid-19th century outbuilding, part of Hilton Farmhouse in Whitsome, with later additions and alterations. The original farmhouse section is a two-story, three-bay rectangular building, distinguished by a kneelered gable. A two-story, gabled addition has been added to the rear, creating an L-shaped layout, with a later single-story porch located in the re-entrant angle. The construction combines squared and snecked tooled sandstone, polished and droved sandstone dressings, and rubble sandstone at the rear. A raised base course and droved rubble quoins, with chamfered corners to the central bay, are also visible. The windows have stop-chamfered openings surrounded by tooled rubble, with sandstone mullions dividing the bipartites. Projecting cills and moulded skewputts are present, as is a harled porch at the rear. A walled garden, predominantly of red brick with some tooled red sandstone, is situated to the west. To the northwest is a single-story, rectangular-plan outbuilding.

The main (east) elevation features a recessed, part-glazed timber panelled door centered at ground level, surmounted by a two-pane fanlight and a bracketed canopy. A single window is positioned above, beneath the decorative kneelered gablehead, with a gablehead stack rising above. Bipartite windows are recessed to the left and right at ground level, with single windows aligned above.

The southwest elevation displays a gabled bay to the far right, showcasing a single window offset to the left of center. A two-story, two-bay addition extends to the outer left, featuring a bipartite window at ground level in the right bay, a single window above, and single windows at both floors in the outer left bay.

The northwest (rear) elevation shows a gabled addition advanced to the right, with a replacement window centered at ground level. A lean-to porch occupies the re-entrant angle to the left, above which is a stair window, and a small single window in the bay to the left. A single window is present at first floor in the bay to the outer left.

Throughout the building, predominantly 12-pane glazing is found in timber sash and case windows, with an 18-pane window illuminating the stairwell. Grey slate roofs are topped by raised stone skews and moulded skewputts to the gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also incorporated. A moulded cope adorns the sandstone stack above the entrance gable, while rendered ridge and apex stacks feature on the sides and rear, along with various circular cans. The interior was not inspected in 1997.

The rectangular-plan walled garden to the west is predominantly red brick-faced on the inner walls, with coped tooled red sandstone to the east. Square-plan gatepiers, featuring corniced sandstone caps and pyramidal bases (without finials), are central to the west wall, where a blocked gateway once stood. A wrought-iron pedestrian entrance gate allows access from the road.

The single-story outbuilding, constructed of part-harled brick and rubble sandstone, has single boarded timber doors on its south and east elevations. A grey slate, piended roof is topped by a brick wallhead stack to the east. The interior of the outbuilding was also not inspected in 1997.

Random rubble boundary walls enclose the site to the north, with splayed random rubble walls flanking the entrance. Corniced, coursed sandstone, circular-plan gatepiers, topped by ball-shaped finials, support wrought-iron gates.