Hillside House (EHER 34321)

Hillside house is a large, two storey red brick detached house built in 1858 in the Victorian Gothic Style. It was laid out in a T-shaped plan with the main elevation facing N.W. Significant features include tall stacks and a bell tower.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Hillside House is a large, two storey detached house built in 1858 in the Victorian Gothic Style. It was built in red brick in Flemish bond and roofed in handmade red plain tiles. It was laid out in a T-shaped plan with main elevation facing N.W. The front elevation comprises gable to cross wing with projecting two storey bay, set back to right of this is a two-storey entrance porch surmounted by shingled timber bell turret and projecting open porch. The right-hand section of elevation is subdivided by a brick stack on face with relief panel and a canted projecting bay at ground floor level on right hand corner. The windows are timber mullion and transom with diamond leaded lights, rebated in openings with one projecting by at ground floor, and on right hand section at first floor two centre arched heads with decorative moulded bricks. There are canted sills beneath. The window on the bay has drip mould with flint inset above, and thin brick buttresses on splays. The detail is repeated on the canted by at right hand end. There is a parapet to the cross wing gable, eaves to the projecting bays and the front elevation incorporated projecting string courses of decorative brick. The front door sits in an open recess with two centre segmental brick archways, made up of two courses, with a moulded lower ogee. The floor in the recess is tiled diagonally. The door has thirteen panels, the lower six with shields, the upper five form part of two centre arch design with decorated spandrels. There is a heavy doorcase with quadrant and hollow mouldings. In front of the entrance is an open timber porch. The side (SW) elevation comprises of two gables, both with decorative ribs and corbels beneath verge on left hand, and parapet on right. The left gable has recessed roundel in apex, diaper pattern in burnt headers square inset flint panel. There are two windows, one central at first floor, one offset at the ground floor, they are both mullion and transom with details similar to the front elevation. The right gable apex has a decorative roundel with polychrome splayed bricks directly above tripartite window with arched heads. Above the first floor is a large window with two centre brick arched heads. There is timber tracery in "Y" form, with diamond shaped leaded lights. The roof form is irregular with a hexagonal structure over the entrance porch. The gables both have parapets and a variety of bargeboards from simple straight type on two gablets on the right hand of front elevation to curved type with fret cut quatrefoil motif on open porch in front of entrance. There are decorative ridge tiles; four stacks each of different design with moulded projecting courses, including dentil. The houses’ interior contains many original features including a pilloried central entrance hall with trefoils to the balustrade, high beamed ceilings, gothic panelled doors and an open-well staircase lit by a large gothic window with stained margin panes; but most of the chimney pieces have been removed. <1> <2> <3> <4>